Re: address@hidden: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue]

[Andreas Röhler]

Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2007 20:00 schrieb Richard Stallman:
>     > directory-files is supposed to ignore case
>     > if the system treats file names as case-insensitive.
>     > It does not obey case-fold-search.
>     >
>     >     ;;; ==> (MY-PATH/DIRECTORY/DIRECTORY/.
>     > MY-PATH/DIRECTORY/DIRECTORY/.. MY-PATH/DIRECTORY/DIRECTORY/FILE.TXT)
>     > [4 times]
>     >
>     > What system are you using?
>
>     Suse 10.2, GNU Emacs 23.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.6)
> of 2007-12-09
>
> That is very strange!  On GNU/Linux, directory-files is supposed
> to be case-sensitive.  And when I try it, it is case-sensitive.
>
>

Meanwhile I discovered: with that test-form, Emacs not only
reads case-insensitive all "[fF]", but the whole
directory is grasped.

Maybe that's correct in that circumstances? Didn't
encounter problems with `directory-files' elsewhere. 
Probably it's that incomplete regexp which caused that.

Andreas Röhler