From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set-auto-mode on case insensitive OS:es [Was: Re: CC Mode 5.30]
Date: 07 Jul 2003 08:08:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uvfueke5q.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E19ZMqh-0005Rj-1Y@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 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.
I don't think so. Other tools have a tendancy to change the case of
the file name at random.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-07 7:08 UTC|newest]
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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
2003-07-07 7:08 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
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
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