Re: buffer name completion is case-sensitive now

[John Paul Wallington]

On 8 Jun 2008, at 20:53, Drew Adams wrote:

> I said:
>
> > I think we should add a user option for this, similar to
> > `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case':
> > `buffer-name-completion-ignore-case'.
>
> Implementation of respect for such an option would likely be limited  
> to
> `read-buffer' and `interactive' buffer specs ("B" and "b").
>
> Unlike the case for `read-file-name' and
> `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case', it is impossible for  
> `completing-read'
> to reliably determine whether its completion candidates are (all)  
> buffer names.

Hm.  I guess people should call `read-buffer' when they want a buffer  
name and frob `read-buffer-function' to change its behaviour.  I'll  
propose a simple `read-buffer-completion-ignore-case' change in a  
minute.