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bug#24441: 24.5; rename directory in dired to change case
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#24441: 24.5; rename directory in dired to change case |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:20:44 +0300 |
> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 07:57:40 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: schwab@suse.de, brady@bradyt.com, 24441@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> My point was that it is not necessarily the case that, for Emacs,
> _just because_ a filesystem is case-insensitive, you cannot
> rename a file to the same name but with a different letter case.
See the bug I pointed to, where John explained that OS X filesystems
can be either case-sensitive or case-insensitive. Unlike on Windows,
Emacs cannot assume file names are always case-insensitive, so a
run-time test is needed, and someone needs to write the code to do it.
bug#24441: 24.5; rename directory in dired to change case, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/09/15