From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `eshell-under-cygwin-p' etc. inappropriate? Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:50:03 +0300 (IDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87bs8el8ae.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 1028782351 25943 127.0.0.1 (8 Aug 2002 04:52:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 04:52:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17cfHh-0006kK-00 for ; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 06:52:29 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17cfdd-0003Fl-00 for ; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 07:15:09 +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 17cfIH-00055g-00; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 00:53:05 -0400 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17cfHY-00050v-00; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 00:52:21 -0400 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA05012; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:50:03 +0300 (IDT) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: John Wiegley In-Reply-To: <87bs8el8ae.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> 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:6351 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6351 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.