From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: set-auto-mode on case insensitive OS:es [Was: Re: CC Mode 5.30] Date: 07 Jul 2003 08:08:01 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5bhe6119sc.fsf@lister.roxen.com> <5bel1518cr.fsf@lister.roxen.com> <5bznjsenur.fsf@lister.roxen.com> <5bfzlj4xk1.fsf_-_@lister.roxen.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1057562465 18556 80.91.224.249 (7 Jul 2003 07:21:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 07:21:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 07 09:21:03 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19ZQIz-0004or-00 for ; Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:20:57 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19ZQSj-0002Jd-00 for ; Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:31:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19ZQIy-0004Gq-I6 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2003 03:20:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19ZQIF-0004BI-Lv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2003 03:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19ZQGw-0003qL-RN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2003 03:18:51 -0400 Original-Received: from server0011.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.56.14] helo=server0027.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19ZQ6h-0000Vc-BJ; Mon, 07 Jul 2003 03:08:15 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonr.f2s.com ([195.137.103.251]) h6778EQ8026043; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 07:08:14 GMT Original-Received: from NYAUMO (nyaumo.jasonr.f2s.com [10.0.0.27]) by wanchan.jasonr.f2s.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0305EDDEC3; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 08:08:14 +0100 (BST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-cc: bug-cc-mode@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:15454 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15454 Richard Stallman 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.