Why does dired consider case significant?

Why does dired consider case significant?

[Davin Pearson]

In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2004-03-11 on NYAUMO
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.2)'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENZ
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I have been using (Windows XP) Emacs 20.7 for quite some time.  I was
happy about the way it showed directories in dired, effectively
ignoring case:

aaa
Makefile
zzz

Now I have upgraded to Emacs 21.3 and it shows directory listings like
so:

Makefile
aaa
zzz

I don't like this as much as how it was before.

My question is: how do you get Emacs to display directories like it
did back in the good old days of Emacs 20.7 (i.e. ignoring
case in the ordering of the files)?




Recent input:
e p <return> M A k e <backspace> <backspace> a <backspace>
a <backspace> <backspace> a k e f i l e SPC * <return>
<C-tab> <f4> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <up> <return> <f4> <up>
<up> <up> <up> <C-end> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<up> <up> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <M-f1> <help-echo> M-x
r e p o r <tab> <return>

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Re: Why does dired consider case significant?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 01.03.2006 um 05:18 schrieb Davin Pearson:

> My question is: how do you get Emacs to display directories like it
> did back in the good old days of Emacs 20.7 (i.e. ignoring
> case in the ordering of the files)?

Are you still using the same file system?

I am on Mac OS X. Its HFS+ is not case sensitive, i.e. AAA, AaA, aAa,  
etc. are all the same file. But, when it comes to display the file  
name, the case in which the name once was typed, is preserved. So I  
can see whether I then typed AAA, AaA, aAa, or aaa ...

Has your file system similar features?

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Greetings

   Pete

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