path completion case sensitivity on unix

2009-07-03 Fir de Conversatie Thomas Rowe

Path completion on Windows and Unix are different regarding case
sensitivity.  Given file './Blah' on Windows, vim command ':e btab' will
expand out to ':e Blah'.  On Linux it does not expand, even though bash
does as I have 'set completion-ignore-case on' in my ~/.inputrc.

I would much prefer case insensitive completion on Linux.  Ideally vim
would honor .inputrc settings.  I'd like to offer a patch but the
learning curve for the vim source seems rather steep.

Any chance of getting this implemented?  Or can someone offer some
pointers on how to do it myself?

Thanks,
Thomas Rowe

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Re: path completion case sensitivity on unix

2009-07-03 Fir de Conversatie Matt Wozniski

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Thomas Rowe wrote:

 Path completion on Windows and Unix are different regarding case
 sensitivity.  Given file './Blah' on Windows, vim command ':e btab' will
 expand out to ':e Blah'.  On Linux it does not expand, even though bash
 does as I have 'set completion-ignore-case on' in my ~/.inputrc.

 I would much prefer case insensitive completion on Linux.  Ideally vim
 would honor .inputrc settings.  I'd like to offer a patch but the
 learning curve for the vim source seems rather steep.

 Any chance of getting this implemented?  Or can someone offer some
 pointers on how to do it myself?

Vim couldn't possibly obey settings in .inputrc, since it doesn't use readline.

As for case-insensitive completion, see this:

http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/browse_thread/thread/d85208b0b888c5a2/7215a4c95e7637e1

~Matt

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