On 2022-03-04, Gary Johnson <
gary...@spocom.com> wrote:
> On 2022-03-04, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>> Gary Johnson wrote:
>>
>> > Typing part of a word, then using Ctrl-X Ctrl-K to complete the word
>> > from entries in a dictionary works fine as long as the word (not
>> > a proper noun) is all lower case. But when a word that is lower
>> > case in the dictionary is capitalized when typed, as at the start of
>> > a sentence or in a title, completion from the dictionary fails.
>> >
>> > Is there a way to have Ctrl-X Ctrl-K complete a capitalized word
>> > even though it is not capitalized in the dictionary?
>> >
>> > Example:
>> >
>> > cornu<C-X><C-K> expands to cornucopia (or cornucopias), but
>> > Cornu<C-X><C-K> results in E486 Pattern not found.
>> >
>> > I'm using Vim 8.2.4127 in a terminal on Linux.
>>
>> You can set 'ignorecase' to find matches. It's not clever though, it
>> will then remove the capital letter.
>
> That's an improvement over what I had been doing. Thank you.
>
> I always have 'ignorecase' set, but I also have 'smartcase' set.