From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug Emacs 21.3: write-file downcasing Date: 11 Feb 2003 15:53:41 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030207163850.3779.LEKTU@terra.es> <2110-Fri07Feb2003191658+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <20030207182150.377E.LEKTU@terra.es> <2593-Fri07Feb2003201921+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044975277 12175 80.91.224.249 (11 Feb 2003 14:54:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:54:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: huug Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ibns-00039l-00 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:54:32 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18ibzP-0002mz-00 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:06:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ibpE-0001XN-07 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:55:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ibnD-0000aQ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:53:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ibn3-0000Wq-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:53:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.28.100.187] (helo=mail.epost.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ibn3-0000W5-00; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:53:41 -0500 Original-Received: from cicero.benny.turtle-trading.net.epost.de (193.99.153.6) by mail.epost.de (6.7.015) id 3E41A8510009174B; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:53:40 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11562 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11562 Hi all, Somebody wrote: > It isn't Windows-specific: Emacs needs it handle any > case-preserving-but-indifferent file system correctly. Richard Stallman writes: > Are there any other such systems we are trying to support? I don't > think so. As I see it, it's not a question of OS but of supported file systems these days. MacOSX is almost exclusivly installed on HFS+ today. Many GNU/Linuxers maintain data on FAT volumes. Others mount SMB volumes from networked Microsoft NT servers. All of these are case-insensitive, like it or not. so long, benny PS: The real complication is non-ASCII characters in filenames. From my experience this is still a black art on GNU/Linux. This is of course one of the problems Unix (and POSIX?) tried to avoid with using case-sensitive file systems in the first place. But that is a separate problem (an extension of the problem, so to speak).