RE: woman case sensitive

[Dr Francis J Wright]

> From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Saturday 29 October 2005 4:37 pm
> To: Francis J. Wright
> Cc: address@hidden; Roland Winkler
> Subject: Re: woman case sensitive
> 
> > From: "Roland Winkler" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:46:39 +0200
> > 
> > On my GNU linux system the command man is not case sensitive.
> > Executing `man -w -a UiL' gives
> > 
> > /usr/X11R6/man/man1/uil.1.gz
> > /usr/X11R6/man/man3/Uil.3.gz
> > /usr/X11R6/man/man5/UIL.5.gz
> > 
> > even though there is no man page UiL. Consistent with this, 
> the emacs 
> > command man "UiL" gives me the above three man pages. 
> However, woman 
> > says "No match". (Of course, normally I will type woman "uil"
> > which will give me the first man page only and I will miss the other
> > two.)
> > 
> > Is this a bug or a missing feature? I would appreciate if 
> there was at 
> > least an option to configure this. And I suggest that the default 
> > value of this option should give the case-insensitive 
> behavior of the 
> > man command.
> 
> Sounds like a missing feature, and woman.el has some comments 
> about that.  Francis, could you please comment on this?

I think I intended that woman would offer all the various spellings during
completion and then process whichever the user selected.  The comments in
the function woman-file-name suggest that I had trouble making this work.
It's quite possible that it never worked correctly, or that something else
in Emacs has changed so that it no longer works correctly, or possibly that
it is platform dependent, since I use MS Windows.

I don't have time to investigate further, but if someone would like to fix
this by making woman do what they think is appropriate then please go ahead.
I have had to withdraw from woman maintenance due to pressure of other
commitments.

Best wishes, Francis