[issue18903] IDLE file-completion is case-sensitive in Windows

2020-06-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- versions: +Python 3.10 -Python 3.6, Python 3.7 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue18903] IDLE file-completion is case-sensitive in Windows

2017-06-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- assignee: -> terry.reedy versions: +Python 3.6, Python 3.7 -Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker

[issue18903] IDLE file-completion is case-sensitive in Windows

2017-06-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- nosy: -BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue18903] IDLE file-completion is case-sensitive in Windows

2014-10-04 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Wesley himself suggested that it is not ready to apply. There are currently 7 completion issues for Idle. I hope to someday work on all of them together, alone with a test file. But there are a couple of other issue clusters that I consider higher priority.

[issue18903] IDLE file-completion is case-sensitive in Windows

2014-10-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: @Terry can you comment on Westley's patch please. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue18903

[issue18903] IDLE file-completion is case-sensitive in Windows

2013-09-10 Thread Westley Martínez
Westley Martínez added the comment: I've written a patch that sort of implements the functionality that makes the most sense to me. The problem is it only works right for the first entry. It's kind of wonky and I'm not entirely sure how it behaves, nor do I know the cause of the bug, but

[issue18903] IDLE file-completion is case-sensitive in Windows

2013-09-08 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: A possible complication is that at least in part, the same code (AutoComplete.py) is used for both attribute completion and filename completion. Attribute completion is always case sensitive. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue18903] IDLE file-completion is case-sensitive in Windows

2013-09-08 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The initial difficulty I am having is that the edit menu, help file, code, and behavior do not seem to match up, so this whole feature set needs more review. For one thing, the AutoCompleteWindow (ACW) often comes up empty initially. Sometimes it fills in a

[issue18903] IDLE file-completion is case-sensitive in Windows

2013-09-08 Thread Westley Martínez
Westley Martínez added the comment: My example was totally abstract and untested. Sorry for any confusion. After doing some research, I find that this issue is complicated further: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/100625 I think we can assume that running into a situation where there are

[issue18903] IDLE file-completion is case-sensitive in Windows

2013-09-07 Thread Westley Martínez
Westley Martínez added the comment: I believe HFS is case-preserving as well, but it also can be configured to be case-sensitive. I'm not a Mac owner though so don't take my word for it. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue18903] IDLE file-completion is case-sensitive in Windows

2013-09-06 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: This strikes me a sort-of a bug. However, feature vs. bug does not matter for small changes (see PEP434). Is Windows the only case preserving, case insensitive OS? -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker

[issue18903] IDLE file-completion is case-sensitive in Windows

2013-09-01 Thread Westley Martínez
New submission from Westley Martínez: Hi, I'm not sure if this would be considered a bug or a feature request, but IDLE's file-completion is case-sensitive in Windows (e.g. if I have a file named ABBA and I type in 'abb' + tab, ABBA won't pop up. Since Windows files systems are not