From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, bug-cc-mode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set-auto-mode on case insensitive OS:es [Was: Re: CC Mode 5.30]
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 23:39:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E19ZMqh-0005Rj-1Y@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bfzlj4xk1.fsf_-_@lister.roxen.com> (message from Martin Stjernholm on Sun, 06 Jul 2003 15:03:26 +0200)
Wouldn't it be better if it downcased the name and matched it case
sensitively instead? The "normal" case in case sensitive systems
is afaik lowercase, so patterns that are written without special
attention to it use lowercase characters and would match if the
name was simply downcased.
That seems like a good idea to me. Is there any case where it would give
bad results?
Also, NT file systems can distinguish between upper and lower case
chars visually, even if it doesn't matter when finding files. Thus
it could be an idea to try to match the name case sensitively
first, and if that fails do another attempt with a downcased name
(or with case-fold-search set).
Whether this would really give the desired results is a tricky
question. I think that we had better wait for MS-Windows users to tell
us if that would really work well with their typical patterns of usage.
-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including
Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now.
Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET.
http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-07 3:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <5bhe6119sc.fsf@lister.roxen.com>
2003-07-05 12:11 ` [David Ponce <david.ponce@wanadoo.fr>] Re: CC Mode 5.30 Martin Stjernholm
2003-07-05 20:10 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-07-06 11:28 ` Jason Rumney
2003-07-06 13:03 ` set-auto-mode on case insensitive OS:es [Was: Re: CC Mode 5.30] Martin Stjernholm
2003-07-07 3:39 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2003-07-07 7:08 ` Jason Rumney
2003-07-07 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-07-07 19:40 ` Jason Rumney
2003-07-08 20:02 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-07 16:34 ` [David Ponce <david.ponce@wanadoo.fr>] Re: CC Mode 5.30 Tak Ota
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=E19ZMqh-0005Rj-1Y@fencepost.gnu.org \
--to=rms@gnu.org \
--cc=bug-cc-mode@gnu.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=jasonr@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).