Emacs: completion of buffer names ignores case

[Joe Buehler]

Eric Hanchrow wrote:

>     Possible completions are:
>     *Shell Command Output*             *shell*
> 
> Now, I can understand that Emacs would ignore case when completing
> file names on Windows, since Windows itself doesn't distinguish file
> names by case.  But since Emacs does distinguish buffer names by case,
> I expect it, when completing buffer names, to ignore a buffer whose
> name differs in case from what I've typed.
> 
> Is this a bug?

Undoubtedly -- I made some patches to the LISP source in 21.2-9
to attempt to get the proper case-insensitivity changes for Cygwin.

Let me look and see what I can find.

Joe Buehler




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