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Re: Fix to readline for case-insensitive file-name completion


Curtis Galloway, you wrote:
> 
> Here are diffs to do case-insensitive globbing and filename completion. 
> They are set to be case-insensitive by default on Win32, but can be
> turned off by unsetting the special variables "glob_case_fold" and
> "completion_case_fold".

Two suggestions:

1.  I think "glob_ignore_case" and "completion_ignore_case" would be
    better names.

2.  For non-interactive scripts at least, the default for globbing should
    be case-sensitive even on Win32, because scripts may rely on it.  

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