completion-ignore-case: documentation bug

[Alex Coventry]

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If I recall correctly, setting completion-ignore-case to true used to
result in case being ignored when completing reads of filenames.  Over
the past few months, emacs's indifference to case in this context tended
to fade inexplicably after a random amount of time, and with my latest
build, it fails altogether, even right after emacs is started.  I found
out about read-file-name-completion-ignore-case by reading the NEWS
file, but it would be good to mention it in the documentation for
completion-ignore-case.  Even better would be to warn people of the
change on startup, if at the end of initialization
completion-ignore-case is set to t and
read-file-name-completion-ignore-case isn't.

Hope this helps.
Alex.


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2004-08-02 on waxwing
configured using `configure '--prefix=/scratch2/alex''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Zephyr

Minor modes in effect:
  display-time-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
f i C-o <backspace> - C-o C-o C-o C-o <backspace> . 
<backspace> , SPC r a t h e r SPC t h a n SPC j u s 
t SPC c o m p l e t i o n - i g n C-o <M-backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> - c C-o . M-q C-c C-c M-x e 
m a c <tab> b u <tab> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> b 
u g <tab> <M-backspace> C-g C-h a b a g <return> C-h 
a b u g <return> M-x r e p o r t - e m <tab> b u <tab> 
<return>

Recent messages:
Scanning `NEWS'
Scanning ` *Minibuf-1*'
Scanning `emacs'
Expansion found in 'emacs'
Sending to (nim:work)...
Sending to (work)... done
Quit
Loading apropos...done
Type M-x switch-to-buffer-other-window RET to restore the other window.  C-M-v 
to scroll the help.
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