From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists. Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:57:20 +0100 Message-ID: References: <8764d8u085.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <85lkm4zbfa.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164149908 14873 80.91.229.2 (21 Nov 2006 22:58:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:58:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 21 23:58:26 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmeYb-0007IU-SD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:57:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmeYb-0002Bo-HH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:57:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmeYN-00028h-Ee for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:57:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmeYL-00025Q-Pt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:57:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmeYL-000259-Gn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:57:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.236] (helo=wr-out-0506.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GmeYL-0001vp-JS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:57:21 -0500 Original-Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i32so9010wra for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:57:20 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hegs6bYaGpCv95kIWmVD+nTGj0t2KapLSpT4F3jsArRKehlrnHC8f4fHPeagPs7haocp2QyIaY1XtgkD/G/Lu+01HkxJqSnem1dMa13+fAPR5srgY85FATlUP7FKxBvaO4nV9Fu0QcQYCyJoeVAnsjfin+4eD6wQx8d7N3Fp768= Original-Received: by 10.90.115.4 with SMTP id n4mr3663125agc.1164149840555; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:57:20 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.35.95.18 with HTTP; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:57:20 -0800 (PST) Original-To: "David Kastrup" In-Reply-To: <85lkm4zbfa.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62618 Archived-At: On 11/21/06, David Kastrup wrote: > But nevertheless nobody would think of proposing that voluntas.tex and > volvntas.tex should map to the same file. Not today. Every single roman (from the classical period) able to read and use a computer would have proposed just that! > Having different file names map to the same file is a recipe for > trouble. Circular reasoning. MyBook.txt and mybook.txt are not different file names in case-insensitive systems. Certainly, when I'm looking for that old picture of my dogs, I want to find "Mila&Nero.png" when I search for "mila&nero". I don't distinguish between capitalized or non-capitalized words, except in very specific (written) contexts. I don't know why my computer should insist I do. And plenty of successful operating systems have been case-insensitive, so it is clearly not a bad idea, not unworkable, nor particularly dangerous, difficult to implement, or hard on the user. It's just another UI decision. One I like a lot. /L/e/k/t/u