On 3/8/07, Myrddin Emrys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/8/07, Martin Baehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > wrote:
[...] I think it's more consistent to
> always do a case insensitive match if there are no results. The whole point
> of pressing TAB in this situation is because you want to complete the lin
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:43:22PM -0600, Myrddin Emrys wrote:
> A point I forgot though... I have no problem with only doing the case
> insensitive matching if there are no globs/regex.
actually, i recosnidered my opinion on this.
case insensitive matching is a form of wildcards so it does fit we
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:41:13PM -0600, Myrddin Emrys wrote:
> linux> mv *.DO
> *.do stupid.doc, silly.doc, resume.doc, ...
> linux> mv *.do
>
> Just because I use capital letters doesn't mean I am certain of the case I
> want...
> I don't know about you, but I don't press tab if I'm not expec
Hmm. I should cut back on the ranting.
A point I forgot though... I have no problem with only doing the case
insensitive matching if there are no globs/regex. It really does complicate
matters. If the code turns out to be easy however, then working with
globs/regex would be a bonus.
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On 3/8/07, Martin Baehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
that's a good point. if one puts uppercase letters in there it's
presumably done intentionally and getting the case changed on that would
be irritating.
Perhaps... but how often would it happen? Don't forget the scenario of why
you are using
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:02:25PM -0500, Philip Ganchev wrote:
> It is an interesting idea to be able to say that you don't want the
> case to be changed. But using wildcards is not a good way to do this,
> because they make the expression more general, not more specific. One
> way to do it is t
On 3/7/07, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I haven't been very active in this discussion because of various real
> life issues, including the fact that I will present my licenthiate
> thesis tomorrow, but I am reading all entries with interest.
I hope it went well!
[...]
> If I wer
