bug#508: emacs 22.2.1 becomes confused

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:30:03 +0200
> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, bruce.korb@gmail.com
> 
> Sven Joachim wrote:
> > On 2008-06-30 21:57 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> >>> From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
> >>> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:53:51 +0200
> >>> Cc: 508@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> >>>
> >>> +   (case-fold-search
> >>> +    (if (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt darwin macos vax-vms 
> >>> axp-vms))
> >> You forgot cygwin in this list.
> > 
> > I just pasted the list from the read-file-name-completion-ignore-case
> > defcustom in minibuffer.el.  Should that list include cygwin as well?
> 
> 
> Shouldn't these things be defsubt so that it easier to change and maintain?

I'm not sure I understand what you are suggesting.  Please explain.