Re: completion-ignore-case: documentation bug

[John Paul Wallington]

Thanks for the reports, Alex and Jesse.  

I have added a mention of the `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case'
variable to the docstrings of `completion-ignore-case' and
`read-file-name'.

I don't think it would be good to specially warn of this particular
change on startup.  However, I've added a `custom-version' property so
that it will be noticed by M-x customize-changed-options.

address@hidden writes:

> I'd like to second the suggestion that the documentation for
> completion-ignore-case include a mention of the new variable
> read-file-name-completion-ignore-case.  I was all set to submit a bug
> report on completion-ignore-case being broken for file name completion
> (tested my reference build of CVS emacs from 5/25/03 to verify that it
> "used to work") but found Alex's message before I sent it.
>
> Thanks,
> Jesse Byler
>
>> Alex Coventry
>> Subject:     completion-ignore-case: documentation bug
>> Date:        Mon, 02 Aug 2004 15:28:04 -0400
>> User-agent:  Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)
>> 
>> 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.