bug#28439: suggestion: support case-independent xref-find-definitions prompt

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> On 9/28/17 2:06 AM, Winston wrote:
>
>>     Unless you want to argue that xref-find-definitions is a
>> "completion", doing that would mean that completion-ignore-case has an
>> unexpected side-effect (namely, that it affects a function that is not a
>> "completion").  On programming aesthetic grounds, then, I'd argue that
>> xref-ignore-case (or whatever you want to call it) would be better.
>
> This is just splitting hairs. xref-ignore-case will default to
> completion-ignore-case, and you'd be able to give the same complaint.

Skimming this thread, it seems that there was concern that xref is
inconsistent here somehow, but no actual use case was shown where this
happens.  So I'm closing this bug report -- if this is a problem seen in
the wild, please respond to the debbugs address and we'll reopen.

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