From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 24441@debbugs.gnu.org, schwab@suse.de, brady@bradyt.com
Subject: bug#24441: 24.5; rename directory in dired to change case
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:03:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5965f396-a65a-3d70-e67e-c3d680fe9e65@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834m5h6vg3.fsf@gnu.org>
On 9/15/2016 11:20 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 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.
FWIW, this is also true on Cygwin:
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-15 16:03 UTC|newest]
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2016-09-15 14:57 ` bug#24441: 24.5; rename directory in dired to change case Drew Adams
2016-09-15 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-15 16:03 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2016-09-15 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-10 22:25 ` Ken Brown
2016-11-11 1:42 ` Ken Brown
2016-11-11 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-11 16:23 ` Michael Albinus
2016-11-11 21:42 ` Ken Brown
2016-11-12 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-13 13:14 ` Ken Brown
2016-11-15 19:58 ` Michael Albinus
2016-09-15 3:32 Brady Trainor
2016-09-15 9:05 ` Tino Calancha
2016-09-15 9:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-09-15 13:43 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-15 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-15 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-14 20:33 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-15 19:59 ` Ken Brown
2016-11-15 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-30 22:22 ` Ken Brown
2017-05-21 6:17 ` Paul Eggert
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