Re: tab-completion should adjust case of suggestion if a respective file exists

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/14/22 12:20 PM, Martin Castillo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> weird subject. Just consider this:
>
> # assume: set completion-ignore-case on
> $ mkdir new && cd new;
> $ mkdir Foo foobar
> $ ls f<TAB>
> $ ls foo
>
>
> foo does not exist, but Foo is (the only) matching foo not considering 
> case. I suggest readline to suggest Foo instead of foo.

Since you've told readline not to consider case when completing, why would
it want to change what the user typed? It matched, after all.

Consider a file system that's case-insensitive but case-preserving. You
wouldn't want to change what the user typed in that case.

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