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 b<tab>' 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/d85208b0b888c5a2/721\
5a4c95e7637e1

~Matt

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