Case Insensitive Note Searching

[khelmr]

Hi. Does anyone know how to make minibuffer completion for note file searching case-insensitive? I like to title my notes with capitalized titles, but denote names files in lower case. This makes it so that if I want to create a new note with capitalized titles with the denote-open-or-create function, I can't check in the minibuffer if a note with the same title already exists because the title doesn't match the file case.

I currently have the following variables set to try and make searching for notes case insensitive, but the problem persists.

(setq read-file-name-completion-ignore-case t
      completion-ignore-case t
      read-buffer-completion-ignore-case t)

[lmq-10]

With those settings, minibuffer completion should already ignore case. However, if you are using the orderless package, you also need the following:

(setq orderless-smart-case nil)

[khelmr]

That was it! Thanks for your help!

[TS-CUBED]

Is there another setting that I may be missing? I use Helm-M-x in the search (Spacemacs). With the settings here I can search in lower case, and it fill find files in both upper and lower case.

However, when I search in Mixed case, it does not find the lowercase filenames. So I cannot start typing "Note Title" to see if I already have a not named "Note Title", because the filename will be --note_title--

SOLVED:

helm-case-fold-search t

is the required variable in this case.

[protesilaos]

Very well! We could try to have a one-for-all wrapper in Denote, but I am concerned that it may not work everywhere plus it will create more problems on our end. Hopefully all the relevant packages will eventually use only what ships with Emacs.

[TS-CUBED]

I'm happy with the solution to use built in solutions. Just added my comment to add the missing variable for Helm users.

Works great now.