Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue]

[Andreas Röhler]

Am Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2007 22:43 schrieb Richard Stallman:
>     AFAIS error is in line 555 of completion.el
>
>     ;; Convert search pattern to a standard regular expression
>     (setq regex (regexp-quote basestr)
>
>     Value of `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' seems
>     not readed in.
>
>     If `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' is t,
>     `regexp-quote' probably can't be used.
>
> How does that conclusion follow?
>
That was wrong probably. Point is elsewhere seen from today.

PC-do-completion calls

file-expand-wildcards in files.el

which calls in files.el Here the case question comes in:

(defun wildcard-to-regexp (wildcard)
  "Given a shell file name pattern WILDCARD, return an equivalent regexp.
The generated regexp will match a filename only if the filename
matches that wildcard according to shell rules.  Only wildcards known
by `sh' are supported."

:~/DIRECTORY> ls F*
FILE.TXT

:~/DIRECTORY> ls f*
ls: Zugriff auf f* nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

:~/DIRECTORY> ls -I f*
FILE.TXT

So expansion follows `case-fold-search'?

Seems 

        (let ((case-fold-search completion-ignore-case))

is the right path, just not the right place?

Andreas Röhler