From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `eshell-under-cygwin-p' etc. inappropriate?
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:50:03 +0300 (IDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020808074808.4988A-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bs8el8ae.fsf@alice.dynodns.net>
On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, John Wiegley wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue Aug 6, John writes:
>
> > It was only for XEmacs Cygwin build: AFAICR, executables have
> > extensions such as .exe
>
> Eshell is now using `exec-suffixes', which should be set properly by
> the build environment.
Right; and the .exe suffix is not specific to Cygwin, it's relevant to
all versions of Emacs running on DOS/Windows systems.
> > and the file system was case-insensitive
>
> 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?
Also, this aspect is not specific to Cygwin, either. It's a general
``feature'' of DOS/Windows filesystems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-08 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-06 9:24 `eshell-under-cygwin-p' etc. inappropriate? John Paul Wallington
2002-08-06 20:28 ` John Wiegley
2002-08-07 5:06 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-08-07 5:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-07 5:23 ` John Wiegley
2002-08-07 5:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-07 6:10 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-08-07 20:32 ` John Wiegley
2002-08-07 21:53 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-08-08 4:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-08-10 0:44 ` John Wiegley
2002-08-08 17:23 ` Tak Ota
2002-08-11 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-12 18:19 ` Tak Ota
2002-08-13 9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-10 0:05 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-08-10 0:06 ` John Wiegley
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