Re: M-x dired and read-file-name-completion-ignore-case

[Stefan Monnier]

> Since a fairly recent change, `C-x d' (i.e. `M-x dired') no longer
> ignores case when read-file-name-completion-ignore-case is non-nil.  I
> suspect this change:

> 2008-04-29  Stefan Monnier  <address@hidden>
>         [...]
>       * dired.el (dired-read-dir-and-switches): Replace last change with
>       a new approach that mixes read-file-name and read-directory-name.

The above patch should fix it,


        Stefan


--- dired.el.~1.393.~   2008-05-02 13:38:03.000000000 -0400
+++ dired.el    2008-05-05 15:26:27.000000000 -0400
@@ -607,6 +607,7 @@
             (lambda ()
               (setq minibuffer-default default)
               (setq minibuffer-completing-file-name t)
+              (setq completion-ignore-case 
read-file-name-completion-ignore-case)
               (setq default-directory defdir))
           (substitute-in-file-name
            (completing-read