(member-ignore-case): Return the tail of the list who's car matches,

like `member', not the matching element itself.

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 5600d215ee3..92660226a26 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-11-29  Miles Bader  <miles@gnu.org>
+
+        * subr.el (member-ignore-case): Return the tail of the list who's
+        car matches, like `member', not the matching element itself.
+
 2000-11-29  Kenichi Handa  <handa@etl.go.jp>
 
         * xml.el (xml-parse-tag): Fix finding opening tag.  A tag name
diff --git a/lisp/subr.el b/lisp/subr.el
index 99d06e43844..3adad4268aa 100644
--- a/lisp/subr.el
+++ b/lisp/subr.el
@@ -195,12 +195,9 @@ Unibyte strings are converted to multibyte for comparison."
   "Like `member', but ignores differences in case and text representation.
 ELT must be a string.  Upper-case and lower-case letters are treated as equal.
 Unibyte strings are converted to multibyte for comparison."
-  (let (element)
-    (while (and list (not element))
-      (if (eq t (compare-strings elt 0 nil (car list) 0 nil t))
-          (setq element (car list)))
-      (setq list (cdr list)))
-      element))
+  (while (and list (not (eq t (compare-strings elt 0 nil (car list) 0 nil t))))
+    (setq list (cdr list)))
+  list)
 
 
 ;;;; Keymap support.