From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: Fix to readline for case-insensitive file-name completion 22 May 1997 00:41:51 -0700 Sender: mail AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199705220513.PAA20548.cygnus.gnu-win32@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Original-To: curtis AT pdi DOT com (Curtis Galloway) Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com (Cygnus GNU-win32 mailing list) In-Reply-To: <33831AD6.DD559635@pdi.com> from "Curtis Galloway" at May 21, 97 08:55:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Curtis Galloway, you wrote: > > Here are diffs to do case-insensitive globbing and filename completion. > They are set to be case-insensitive by default on Win32, but can be > turned off by unsetting the special variables "glob_case_fold" and > "completion_case_fold". Two suggestions: 1. I think "glob_ignore_case" and "completion_ignore_case" would be better names. 2. For non-interactive scripts at least, the default for globbing should be case-sensitive even on Win32, because scripts may rely on it. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh AT 128 DOT 250 DOT 37 DOT 3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - 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".