Re: [vile] Case insensitive filename completion?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 08:21:07AM -0800, Marc Simpson wrote:
> Am I overlooking a flag to control case sensitivity in filename
> completion? Ideally, I'd like to enter
> 
>   :e rea^I
> 
> and have vile expand this to
> 
>   :e README
> 
> I find such behaviour convenient in my shell (bash) where
> completion-ignore-case is turned on.

There's no ignore-case for filename completion because vile uses the
buffer containing the actual filenames to match against.  It works by
scanning the directory when you first start name-completion, caching
the result until a different directory is needed.

To get ignore-case, we could build a derived buffer of lowercased
pathnames, but that would be sorted and built at the same time -
a little slow.

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