From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24441: 24.5; rename directory in dired to change case Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:20:44 +0300 Message-ID: <834m5h6vg3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <> <> <<3c49fbe5-9ae0-4ae2-8fa0-3c44fa85c981@default>> <<83d1k56wwt.fsf@gnu.org>> <7a1c7e15-4d84-400d-9735-a72a31408d6b@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1473954826 22609 195.159.176.226 (15 Sep 2016 15:53:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:53:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 24441@debbugs.gnu.org, schwab@suse.de, brady@bradyt.com To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 15 17:53:39 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bkYyp-00058c-0b for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:53:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35689 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkYyl-0005tc-Vh for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:53:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33048) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkYTN-0004TS-4s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:21:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkYTG-0004bz-G0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:21:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:34680) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkYTG-0004bv-DB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:21:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bkYTG-00065R-8c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:21:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:21:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 24441 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 24441-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B24441.147395285423366 (code B ref 24441); Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:21:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 24441) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Sep 2016 15:20:54 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60625 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bkYT4-00064k-Op for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:20:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41967) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bkYT0-00064V-BB for 24441@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:20:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkYSs-0004SI-3j for 24441@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:20:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37375) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkYSs-0004RM-0T; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:20:38 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1392 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bkYSp-0004a8-Nk; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:20:36 -0400 In-reply-to: <7a1c7e15-4d84-400d-9735-a72a31408d6b@default> (message from Drew Adams on Thu, 15 Sep 2016 07:57:40 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:123344 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 07:57:40 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > 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.