From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: Fix to readline for case-insensitive file-name completion
20 May 1997 13:26:21 -0700 :
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Michael Condict wrote:
>
> Geoffrey,
>
> I found the case-sensitive file-name completion in bash unuseable in
> Windows, because one often doesn't know the case of names in advance.
> So I changed it to case-insensitive by adding a few lines to
>
> 		bash/lib/readline/complete.c
>
> I'd like to propose that this feature be integrated into the next
> release of Cygnus Win32.

Sometimes I'm using case-sensitive file names with cygnus tools (just by 
adding FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS to some CreateFile calls in cygwin.dll). 
Huh?-) Moreover, if I have two directories "X11R6.3" and "xfiles" I prefer 
different completions for X<TAB> and x<TAB>.

--
Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.


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