From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug Emacs 21.3: write-file downcasing Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:11:15 +0530 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030210044115.A4F4E467C3@server2.fastmail.fm> References: <20030207163850.3779.LEKTU@terra.es> <2110-Fri07Feb2003191658+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <20030207182150.377E.LEKTU@terra.es> <2593-Fri07Feb2003201921+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <8011-Sun09Feb2003175252+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044852151 22289 80.91.224.249 (10 Feb 2003 04:42:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 04:42:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18i5m1-0005nM-00 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:42:29 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18i5wr-0008Fi-00 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:53:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18i5mv-0003Fg-06 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 23:43:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18i5ma-0002wA-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 23:43:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18i5lK-0001xU-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 23:41:46 -0500 Original-Received: from ny2.fastmail.fm ([66.111.4.3] helo=server2.fastmail.fm) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18i5l0-0001nE-00; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 23:41:26 -0500 Original-Received: from server2.fastmail.fm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD2243D39; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 23:41:15 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=server2.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 23:41:15 -0500 Original-Received: by server2.fastmail.fm (Postfix, from userid 99) id A4F4E467C3; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 23:41:15 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) Original-To: "Eli Zaretskii" , "Richard Stallman" X-Epoch: 1044852075 X-Sasl-enc: gwTUE31+gFuZjVbF8vCAJw In-Reply-To: <8011-Sun09Feb2003175252+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Original-cc: Emacs Bug X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11526 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11526 On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 17:52:52 +0200, "Eli Zaretskii" said: > > From: Richard Stallman > > Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 07:39:43 -0500 > > > > > We should have a `file-name-equal' predicate instead. > > > > I don't like the idea of distorting Emacs that much for the sake of > > Windows. > > In any case, the questions is what is the alternative to solve this > particular problem. I don't think we should leave it unsolved. > Just a thought: If this problem is left unsolved, If I try to write in to an NFS mounted file system, just imagine if the downcasing happens. I will end up having filenames which do not adhere to what I typed (as Unix file system is case sensitive). This is the case in the development environment I am in. Cross-platform development. with regards, dhruva -- Dhruva Krishnamurthy Home: http://www32.brinkster.com/schemer/