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I recently noticed how to configure bash to do case-insensitive filename completion (in /etc/inputrc, add: set completion-ignore-case on), now how do I get this in vim?

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Huh I thought that was default and was mildly bothered by it; both gVim on Windows and MacVim do case-insensitive filename completion. – dash-tom-bang Sep 10 '10 at 17:45
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@dash-tom-bang both in windows and in mac case does not matter (though, as I know, you can alter it in mac). On linux it does. – ZyX Sep 10 '10 at 19:35
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Try

:set wildignorecase

I believe it is a pretty new feature, I have it working in the latest vim build(7.3.107)

see here.

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Perfect. For people who want to put this in their vimrc, you might want to test for the feature first. Copy-and-pasteable version: gist.github.com/3372724 – jakar Aug 16 '12 at 19:16
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This works only for file name completions on the command line (:). Doesn't work with file name completions in insert mode (^X^F), which is still case-sensitive. – Shrikant Sharat Jan 10 '13 at 14:43
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Looks like it's not supported yet. It appears in vim's todo list :help todo search for CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME (with priority "next release"):

8 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Turn CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME into an option, at least for completion.

Anyway, if you don't care to rebuild vim from source then you can try this patch: http://osdir.com/ml/vim_dev/2009-09/msg00006.html

(Haven't tried it, so I cannot guarantee that it will solve your problem. Sorry)

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