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bug#51858: 29.0.50; pcomplete not ignoring case
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#51858: 29.0.50; pcomplete not ignoring case |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 06:32:00 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita2@gmail.com> writes:
> Thanks! Your fix works for me. I'm not sure if this is the best place to set
> completion-ignore-case though.
Yeah, me neither. The completion machinery is hard to grok -- there's
so many magical wrappers and stuff that reasoning about it is a challenge.
> If you look at the code for comint--complete-file-name-data you will
> find that completion-ignore-case is set in the same way that you
> did. But perhaps too late because at that point
> comint-completion-file-name-table has already been called.
Yes, I think so.
> Perhaps the best fix is to bind completion-ignore-case
> earlier in comint--complete-file-name-data. But if
> comint-completion-file-name-table is intended to be called from other places,
> then it's better to set completion-ignore-case there as you did.
I think I tried doing that, and it didn't do the right thing, but I may
be mistaken.
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