From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `eshell-under-cygwin-p' etc. inappropriate? Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 17:44:43 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87r8h7k0ec.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028940261 14535 127.0.0.1 (10 Aug 2002 00:44:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 00:44:21 +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 17dKMe-0003mK-00 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 02:44:20 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17dKjT-00057A-00 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 03:07:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17dKNQ-0000vA-00; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 20:45:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17dKNB-0000ub-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 20:44:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17dKN6-0000tg-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 20:44:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gci-net.com ([216.183.68.100] helo=gci-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17dKN6-0000tR-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 20:44:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [216.183.69.139] (HELO aris) by gci-net.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP-TLS id 6621606 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 17:36:22 -0700 Original-Received: from johnw by aris with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17dKN1-0007iF-00 for ; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 17:44:43 -0700 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Home-Page: http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/ X-Public-Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF40524D0 In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:50:03 +0300 (IDT)") Original-Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) 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:6411 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6411 >>>>> On Wed Aug 7, Eli writes: >> Then let's make a config variable eshell-case-sensitive-filesystem >> or some such. > If Eshell must know about the case insensitivity. Where is that > important? Well, globbing, history searching, etc. All of these subsystems already have a variable to test against, but they are many. They should be collapsed into a general "case-insensitive" variable. John