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[h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC
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Andre Spiegel |
Subject: |
[h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC |
Date: |
12 Jun 2002 13:16:11 +0200 |
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 07:00, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Try this:
>
> (case-fold-search (not (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt))))
I hesitate to install this. Wouldn't it be a cleaner solution if Emacs
always used the real filenames internally, and not a down-cased
version? What is the rationale for that?
If this can't be avoided, then is it always guaranteed that filenames
are case-insensitive under DOS/NT? Couldn't you "mount" a Unix
filesystem and have case-sensitive filenames there? What if DOS/NT
changes so that filenames become case-sensitive there, too? Or,
alternatively, aren't there other architectures (e.g. VMS) where
filenames are case-insensitive as well?
To sum up, the above solution looks like a hack to me and I'd rather
look for something cleaner. Any ideas?
- [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Jeff Rancier, 2002/06/11
- [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/06/12
- [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC,
Andre Spiegel <=
- Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Robert Marshall, 2002/06/12
- [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/06/12
- [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Jeff Rancier, 2002/06/12
- Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Dr Francis J. Wright, 2002/06/12
- Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Jeff Rancier, 2002/06/12
- Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Jason Rumney, 2002/06/12
- Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/06/13
- Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Stephen Leake, 2002/06/12
- [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Jeff Rancier, 2002/06/12
Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Nat Goodspeed, 2002/06/12