Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Allow completion_matches to ignore case

[Torsten]

On 26.05.2013 05:34, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 05/25/2013 08:59 PM, Leo Liu wrote:
>> On 2013-05-25 22:39 +0800, Torsten wrote:
>>> The case sensitivity of the auto completion list is now configurable
>>> (changeset http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/ccfbc767ff5a).
>>>
>>> Torsten
>>
>> Am I reading the code right that this only provides an option in the GUI
>> settings dialog? I tried 'completion_matches C' in the REPL of octave
>> from hg tip and nothing was reported back.
> 
> I started looking at making this change but it will take more time than
> I have available at the moment.  The place to start looking is the
> completion_matches function in libinterp/interpfcn/input.cc.  I suggest
> adding a second parameter to the completion_matches function that will
> enable case-insensitive matching.

Oops, since I worked on some options for the auto completion used in the
gui editor recently I just had this option of Qscintilla in mind which
was not used in the editor so far.

Torsten