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24.3; TAB in shell mode never ignores case, even though I want it to

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From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3; TAB in shell mode never ignores case, even though I want it to
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 10:37:30 -0700

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug, and
the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give a recipe
starting from `emacs -Q':

I started emacs with

        /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q

I typed M-x shell RET

At the shell prompt, I typed "cd doc", then I hit the TAB key.  The
shell's current directory was my home directory, and that directory
contains a subdirectory named "Documents".  I expected the TAB key to
complete the name "Documents", but it just beeped.  I then did M-: (setq
completion-ignore-case t) RET, and tried again, but it still just
beeped.

In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)
 of 2013-03-12 on bob.porkrind.org
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1187
Configured using:
 `configure '--host=x86_64-apple-darwin' '--build=i686-apple-darwin'
 '--with-ns' 'build_alias=i686-apple-darwin'
 'host_alias=x86_64-apple-darwin' 'CC=gcc -mmacosx-version-min=10.7
 -isystem
 /Users/david/Xcode-10.7_4.5.2/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.7.sdk/usr/include/
 -F/Users/david/Xcode-10.7_4.5.2/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.7.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks''

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Shell

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x d <return> M-x s h e l l <return> l s <return>
c d SPC d e o c <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
o c <tab> <tab> C-c C-u C-h v c o m p l e <tab> o <tab>
i <backspace> - i <tab> g <tab> - c <tab> <return>
c d SPC D o <tab> <backspace> <backspace> d o c <tab>
M-x s e t - v a r <tab> <return> c o m p l <tab> -
o <tab> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> i g <tab> <M-backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> - <tab> C-g C-x o <tab> <tab>
<return> C-x 0 C-h v M-p C-k r e a d - f i <tab> i
<tab> <return> C-x 1 C-h c <tab> <tab> M-x s e t -
v a r <tab> <return> c o m p l <tab> <tab> C-g C-h
v M-p C-k c o m p l e <tab> o <tab> - i <tab> g <tab>
- c <tab> <return> M-: M-p M-( s e t q SPC c o m p
l e <M-tab> i <M-tab> o <M-tab> - i <M-tab> g <tab>
- c <tab> SPC t <return> <tab> M-x r e p o r t - e
m <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
TAB (translated from <tab>) runs the command completion-at-point
No match
Making completion list...
Quit
Making completion list...
Type C-x 1 to delete the help window.
user-error: Beginning of history; no preceding item
Making completion list... [2 times]
t
No match

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Message #10 received at 14507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 14243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14507: 24.3;
 TAB in shell mode never ignores case, even though I want it to
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 19:54:19 +0100

Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I started emacs with 
>
> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q
>
> I typed M-x shell RET
>
> At the shell prompt, I typed "cd doc", then I hit the TAB key. The
> shell's current directory was my home directory, and that directory
> contains a subdirectory named "Documents". I expected the TAB key to
> complete the name "Documents", but it just beeped. I then did M-: (setq
> completion-ignore-case t) RET, and tried again, but it still just
> beeped.

Hi, sorry it's taken so long for someone to get back to you, but this
isn't Emacs's filename completion, this is the shells. Probably bash.
I'm afraid I can't help you with that.
-- 
Alan Third

Message #17 received at 14507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
To: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
Cc: 14507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 14243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14507: 24.3; TAB in shell mode never ignores case, even
 though I want it to
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 19:18:55 +0000

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So you're saying that

a) Emacs is deferring to Bash to do the completion in this case; and
b) bash is not ignoring case?

I find both of those hard to believe -- particularly since if I type "cd
doc" at a shell prompt that's not inside emacs, but is in a Terminal.app,
it does what I want (namely: completes to "cd Documents").

If a) is in fact correct, then I suppose Emacs is somehow starting the
shell differently than Terminal.app is.

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:54 AM Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org> wrote:

> Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I started emacs with
> >
> > /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q
> >
> > I typed M-x shell RET
> >
> > At the shell prompt, I typed "cd doc", then I hit the TAB key. The
> > shell's current directory was my home directory, and that directory
> > contains a subdirectory named "Documents". I expected the TAB key to
> > complete the name "Documents", but it just beeped. I then did M-: (setq
> > completion-ignore-case t) RET, and tried again, but it still just
> > beeped.
>
> Hi, sorry it's taken so long for someone to get back to you, but this
> isn't Emacs's filename completion, this is the shells. Probably bash.
> I'm afraid I can't help you with that.
> --
> Alan Third
>

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Message #20 received at 14507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 14243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14507: 24.3; TAB in shell mode never ignores case, even
 though I want it to
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 20:34:22 +0100

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 07:18:55PM +0000, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> So you're saying that
> 
> a) Emacs is deferring to Bash to do the completion in this case; and
> b) bash is not ignoring case?
> 
> I find both of those hard to believe -- particularly since if I type "cd
> doc" at a shell prompt that's not inside emacs, but is in a Terminal.app,
> it does what I want (namely: completes to "cd Documents").
> 
> If a) is in fact correct, then I suppose Emacs is somehow starting the
> shell differently than Terminal.app is.

OK, I think I was talking rubbish. It looks like Emacs does do the
completion.

(BTW, this bug looks like it's OS X specific in debbugs even though
it's reproducible in a GTK+ build on GNU/Linux too.)
-- 
Alan Third

Message #27 received at 14507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
To: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
Cc: 14507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 14243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14507: 24.3; TAB in shell mode never ignores case, even
 though I want it to
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 13:17:48 +0000

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For what it's worth, the problem doesn't repro in emacs23 (specifically,
this commit)
commit c7205e5
Author: Aidan Gauland <aidalgol <at> no8wireless.co.nz>
Date: 2013-02-08 09:44:17 -0500

* doc/misc/eshell.texi: Fill most of the missing sections.

:100644 100644 e05048c... 9fcaa5c... M doc/misc/eshell.texi

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:34 PM Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 07:18:55PM +0000, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> > So you're saying that
> >
> > a) Emacs is deferring to Bash to do the completion in this case; and
> > b) bash is not ignoring case?
> >
> > I find both of those hard to believe -- particularly since if I type "cd
> > doc" at a shell prompt that's not inside emacs, but is in a Terminal.app,
> > it does what I want (namely: completes to "cd Documents").
> >
> > If a) is in fact correct, then I suppose Emacs is somehow starting the
> > shell differently than Terminal.app is.
>
> OK, I think I was talking rubbish. It looks like Emacs does do the
> completion.
>
> (BTW, this bug looks like it's OS X specific in debbugs even though
> it's reproducible in a GTK+ build on GNU/Linux too.)
> --
> Alan Third
>

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Message #30 received at 14507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14507: 24.3; TAB in shell mode never ignores case, even
 though I want it to
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 22:48:39 +0100

Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I started emacs with 
>
>         /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q
>
> I typed M-x shell RET
>
> At the shell prompt, I typed "cd doc", then I hit the TAB key.  The
> shell's current directory was my home directory, and that directory
> contains a subdirectory named "Documents".  I expected the TAB key to
> complete the name "Documents", but it just beeped.  I then did M-: (setq
> completion-ignore-case t) RET, and tried again, but it still just
> beeped.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I vaguely remember this being fixed a while back, and I'm not able to
reproduce it myself in Emacs 29 (but I'm testing on Debian).

Are you still seeing this issue in recent Emacs versions?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #35 received at 14507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14507: 24.3; TAB in shell mode never ignores case, even
 though I want it to
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:16:01 +0100

Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Just tried it now, and it seems to still be there.  The repro recipe and details have
> changed slightly:
> GNU Emacs 27.2 (build 1, arm-apple-darwin21.1.0, NS appkit-2113.00 Version
> 12.0.1 (Build 21A559)) of 2021-11-18
>
> * started, as before, via /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q
> * M-x shell RET
> * cd RET
> * cd d TAB
> * it completed to "docker-build-land" because I happen to have a directory of that
>  name.  But I also have Desktop, Documents, and Downloads, and it didn't offer
>  any of those
> * C-c C-u to erase the previous completion
> * cd de TAB
> * Here of course I was hoping it'd complete to "Desktop", but it just beeped.
> * As before, I did M-: (setq completion-ignore-case t) RET but that had no effect.

Thanks for checking; I can reproduce this in Emacs 27.2, but not on the
current master, so it looks like it's been fixed, and I'm therefore
closing this bug report.

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