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	>> 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.

    It isn't Windows-specific: Emacs needs it handle any
    case-preserving-but-indifferent file system correctly.

Are there any other such systems we are trying to support?
I don't think so.

I am firmly against complicating Emacs for the sake of theoretical
generality.