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[h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC
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Jeff Rancier |
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[h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC |
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Wed, 12 Jun 2002 08:43:00 -0400 |
Andre,
Perhaps, just exposing a customization would alleviate the need for
anticipating the platform. I noticed that under (on XP Pro), that all
shells (COMMAND.COM, CMD.COM, 4NT.EXE, and BASH) did show the files names in
both cases, and were consistent.
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andre Spiegel" <address@hidden>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Jeff Rancier" <address@hidden>; "Emacs Help (Windows)"
<address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC
> 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, (continued)
- [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, 2002/06/12
- 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 <=
Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Nat Goodspeed, 2002/06/12
Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Richard M. Heiberger, 2002/06/12