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bug#842: 23.0.60; find-file prompt is case sensitive on w32
From: |
Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
Subject: |
bug#842: 23.0.60; find-file prompt is case sensitive on w32 |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:29:32 +0200 |
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Drew Adams wrote:
>>>> Try for example
>>>> C-x C-f cha TAB
>>>> in emacs/src.
>>>> This should be case insensitive on w32 since the file
>>>> system is case insensitive.
>>>>
>>>> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>>>> of 2008-08-29
>>>> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
>>>> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags
>>>> -Ic:/g/include -fno-crossjumping'
>>> I don't see that. emacs -Q with:
>>>
>>> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>>> of 2008-08-29 on LENNART-69DE564
>>> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
>>> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt
>> --cflags -Ic:/g/include
>>> -fno-crossjumping'
>>>
>>> I dont' have a src directory, but I tried it in a directory
>>> with uppercase, lowercase, and mixed case files, and C-x C-f
>>> is case insensitive.
>> Strange, this should be the same binaries that I am using ...
>
> Dunno - your lines above don't include "on LENNART-69DE564"; mine do.
It is the same.
>> Is it perhaps the first character that matters? I am trying
>> in emacs/src with C-x C-f c TAB and there are some files
>> beginning with "c" and some with "C".
>> But there are more problems of this kind. Trying in emacs/lisp
>> C-x C-f CVS TAB
>> I get [complete but not unique] and CVS/ is shown as only alternative.
>
> For me it is completed to c:/.../lisp/cvs-status.el, with no minibuffer
> message.
>
> Do you have another file (in the dir) that starts with "cvs"?
Ah, yes. You do not have that one so this was a bad test. (It is the CVS
directory, which is hidden.)
Maybe if you create a file named CVS and try again?
>> And when I use C-x C-f CV TAB I get cvs-status.el.
>
> Same here - same as above, exactly.
>
>> What do you get in these cases?
>> I believe this used to work for me.
>
> Are you sure you're using -Q?
Yes, I am a bit tired, stressed, but ... ;-)