From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Paul Wallington Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `eshell-under-cygwin-p' etc. inappropriate? Date: 07 Aug 2002 07:10:54 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <8765yn8ahd.fsf@bundalo.shootybangbang.com> References: <87k7n3kzs1.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028700395 14528 127.0.0.1 (7 Aug 2002 06:06:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 06:06:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17cJxq-0003mD-00 for ; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 08:06:34 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17cKJJ-0005Yo-00 for ; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 08:28:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17cJyM-0005gF-00; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 02:07:06 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17cJxa-0005JL-00 for ; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 02:06:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17cJwp-0003jp-00 for ; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 08:05:31 +0200 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17cJwp-0003jh-00 for ; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 08:05:31 +0200 Original-Path: 127.0.0.1!nobody Original-Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-272.clefairy.dialup.pol.co.uk Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028700331 14364 217.135.90.16 (7 Aug 2002 06:05:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 06:05:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6326 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6326 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, John Wiegley wrote: > > > >>>>> On Tue Aug 6, Eli writes: > > > > > On 7 Aug 2002, John Paul Wallington wrote: > > >> Maybe `eshell-under-cygwin-p' should be called something else? > > > > > What difference in behavior is that test supposed to handle? > > > Perhaps there's a cleaner way of taking care of that problem. > > > > I think he wants a function that means "DOS-ish behavior for certain > > things". > > Sure, but I'd like to know the gory details. Sometimes you can eat the > cake and have it, too. It was only for XEmacs Cygwin build: AFAICR, executables have extensions such as .exe and the file system was case-insensitive (is that the right phrase? eg README and ReadMe meant the same file, although the filename's case was retained). -- John Paul Wallington