From: rrankin AT primenet DOT com (Rick Rankin) Subject: RE: Fix to readline for case-insensitive file-name completion 20 May 1997 22:04:57 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970520190749.006a6194.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: rrankin AT pop DOT primenet DOT com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Original-To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" In-Reply-To: <01BC6509.83F2A6C0@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I too generally prefer case-sensitive completion. It's the same behaviour as Unix and, perhaps I'm weird (no, make that "different"), but I almost always know the case of my filenames. Even if I don't remember, I can hit before I type any characters and bash shows me the possible completions. Rick Rankin rrankin AT primenet DOT com 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 and x. > >-- >Sergey Okhapkin >Moscow, Russia >Looking for a job. > > >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".