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Re: why is dash confused with underscore in autocompletion?

Started byChet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
First post2018-05-30 09:12 -0400
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  Re: why is dash confused with underscore in autocompletion? Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-05-30 09:12 -0400

#14175 — Re: why is dash confused with underscore in autocompletion?

FromChet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Date2018-05-30 09:12 -0400
SubjectRe: why is dash confused with underscore in autocompletion?
Message-ID<mailman.804.1527685950.1292.bug-bash@gnu.org>
On 5/29/18 7:15 PM, L A Walsh wrote:

>    I often ignore case for filenames, as I often interact
> with windows, but windows does not treat '-' and '_' as the
> same character.  Having bash be the one exception that considers
> them to be case-variations isn't logical nor helpful as having
> a rule that ignores 'case'.  That doesn't preclude a separate
> variable/switch for toggling the behavior.

Linda: it's a readline option. It's off by default. You turned it on
somewhere in your environment. If you don't like the behavior, find out
where you enabled it and turn it off again.

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