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Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue]
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Andreas Röhler |
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Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue] |
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Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:34:14 +0100 |
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Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2007 13:37 schrieb Richard Stallman:
> Your patch consists of passing the wildcard string to `directory-files'
> instead of a regexp. The third argument of `directory-files' is supposed
> to be a regexp, so how can that be right?
>
I just played around looking for a working
expression. That worked, which doesn't mean, it's
perfect.
Here my forms to check it (both are effective):
;;; (defun my-directory-files ()
;;; " "
;;; (interactive)
;;; (setq case-fold-search nil)
;;; (message "%s" (directory-files (expand-file-name
(substitute-in-file-name "~/DIRECTORY/DIRECTORY/")) t "f*"))
;;; (setq case-fold-search t)
;;; (message "%s" (directory-files (expand-file-name
(substitute-in-file-name "~/DIRECTORY/DIRECTORY/")) t "f*"))
;;; (setq case-fold-search nil)
;;; (message "%s" (directory-files (expand-file-name
(substitute-in-file-name "~/DIRECTORY/DIRECTORY/")) t "F*"))
;;; (setq case-fold-search t)
;;; (message "%s" (directory-files (expand-file-name
(substitute-in-file-name "~/DIRECTORY/DIRECTORY/")) t "F*")))
(defun my-directory-files ()
" "
(interactive)
(setq case-fold-search nil)
(message "%s" (directory-files default-directory t "f*"))
(setq case-fold-search t)
(message "%s" (directory-files default-directory t "f*"))
(setq case-fold-search nil)
(message "%s" (directory-files default-directory t "F*"))
(setq case-fold-search t)
(message "%s" (directory-files default-directory t "F*")))
;;; ==> (MY-PATH/DIRECTORY/DIRECTORY/. MY-PATH/DIRECTORY/DIRECTORY/..
MY-PATH/DIRECTORY/DIRECTORY/FILE.TXT) [4 times]
;;;;;;;;;;;;
Probably expression should start with `\\`'
Case-insensitive partial-completion now worked with
empty or nearly empty directories.
However, starting at HOMEDIR, Emacs never returned.
Reason I suspect in that, possible completions now
factorize. Case-insensitiveness might be good for a
single search, not for a wide range of combinations.
From there status quo seems better and more useful than
realising that feature, which might cause bug-reports
when called from filled directories.
So if my first impression was:
"Value of `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' seems
not readed in."
AFAIU it should stay so. Maybe doku of pcm could tell about that.
> What I see in the code is that `directory-files' does case-sensitive
> matching on systems where file names are case-sensitive.
Don't think so. See result ==> ... [4 times]
Matching ignored value of case-fold-search.
> That seems
> correct. As far as I can see, `file-expand-wildcards' is correct too.
Yes
Andreas Röhler
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], (continued)
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Andreas Röhler, 2007/12/06
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Richard Stallman, 2007/12/06
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Andreas Röhler, 2007/12/07
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Richard Stallman, 2007/12/07
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Andreas Röhler, 2007/12/08
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Richard Stallman, 2007/12/09
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Andreas Röhler, 2007/12/10
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Richard Stallman, 2007/12/10
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Andreas Röhler, 2007/12/10
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Richard Stallman, 2007/12/09
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue],
Andreas Röhler <=
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Richard Stallman, 2007/12/10
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Andreas Röhler, 2007/12/10
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Richard Stallman, 2007/12/11
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Andreas Röhler, 2007/12/12
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Richard Stallman, 2007/12/12
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Andreas Röhler, 2007/12/15
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Richard Stallman, 2007/12/16
- Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue], Sven Joachim, 2007/12/16