From:	lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject:	RE: Fix to readline for case-insensitive file-name completion
21 May 1997 00:53:47 -0700 :
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At 10:28 AM 5/20/97 +0400, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
>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.
>
>

If we're voting, I'm with Sergey.  If there's going to be a change, I'd like
it to be configurable.

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