Re: Make find file case insensitive

[Aaron Meurer]

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> Is there a way to make tab completion in find file (C-x C-f) case
>> insensitive?  I'm on Mac OS X with hsf+, so the filesystem is case
>> insensitive.  I didn't find any options in M-x customize for this.
>
> It depends on your Emacs version.
>
> Starting with Emacs 22, see option `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case.

Thanks.  I don't know why I missed that, because I searched M-x
customize for "case".

>
> But in principle Emacs should do the right thing on your platform, without 
> your
> needing to do anything.  Consider reporting a bug: `M-x report-emacs-bug',
> providing information starting from `emacs -Q' (no init file).
>

I just tried it with -Q, and it works correctly there.  Some
investigation shows that I actually had that variable set to nil in my
.emacs.  I guess I misread it somewhere, or misclicked or something.

Aaron Meurer