bug#18716: Patch for this bug

[Reuben Thomas]

On 2 December 2016 at 09:40, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 21:32:03 +0000
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 18716@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> ​Thanks for the heads up, that's great news! It bothered me that there was no easy way to do this previously.
>
> ​I updated my patch so that dired-omit-case-fold is now a three-valued variable which defaults to 'filesystem,
> and a helper function that checks (filename-case-sensitive-p dired-directory) when this value is used.
>
> I've added info and NEWS documentation for dired-omit-case-fold.

Thanks, a few comments below.  With those fixed, please push to
master.

Done; thanks for the review.​

> +                                                           Set to
> +@code{nil} to be always case-sensitive, and @code{t} to be always
> +case-sensitive.

So which is it? ;-)

​I had quite a lot of struggles with these! Well spotted.​

​​

Bonus points for avoiding passive tense altogether ("... allows
customization of case-sensitivity ...").

Bonus points earned!

 

> +(defcustom dired-omit-case-fold 'filesystem
> +  "Whether `dired-omit-mode' will use case-folding to match the
> +regexp of files to omit.  When nil, always be case-sensitive; when

The first line of a doc string should be a complete sentence.

​OK, I fixed this one.​

 

> +(defun dired-omit-case-fold-p (dir)
> +  "Return t if, according to `dired-omit-case-fold',
> +  `dired-omit-mode' should use case folding to interpret its
> +  regexp in directory DIR."

Likewise.

​I'm a bit puzzled here: this is a complete sentence. I wondered whether you expected an "else" clause, so I added one: "…, or nil otherwise."

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