Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Emacs Tip #32: completion-ignore-case and Emacs 23

Everyone is all a-buzz over the new release of Emacs. I've started using it, and I do like the font support.

There was one surprise. I had the old setting

(setq completion-ignore-case t)

because I hate typing capital letters when I can avoid it. Enter Emacs 23.1, and I now have to type capital letters for buffer names and file names (which is 90% of what I use minibuffer completion for). It turns out, there are two new variables, one for each of the types of completion:

(setq read-buffer-completion-ignore-case t)
(setq read-file-name-completion-ignore-case t)


Everything else in the upgrade has been smooth.

1 comment:

史可 阆 said...

I guess the ido extension has a better(IMHO) feature:

(setq ido-enable-flex-matching t)

which can perform partial matching on both filenames and buffer names