From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, Brady Trainor <brady@bradyt.com>
Cc: 24441@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24441: 24.5; rename directory in dired to change case
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 06:43:21 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3c49fbe5-9ae0-4ae2-8fa0-3c44fa85c981@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvmeg4la4w6.fsf@hawking.suse.de>
> > If I have a directory `a', and try to rename it `A' in dired, it errors.
> > `(file-error Renaming Invalid argument /tmp/a /tmp/A/a)'.
>
> That's because your filesystem is case-insensitve, thus /tmp/A already
> exists.
FWIW, MS Windows is case-insensitive, but it nevertheless shows
files and directories using both uppercase and lowercase letters.
And it lets you rename "aa" to "AA", "Aa", etc. The fact that
the file already exists does not prevent you from renaming it
to use different letter case.
And for MS Windows, at least, Emacs supports this as well,
including using Dired.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-15 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-15 3:32 bug#24441: 24.5; rename directory in dired to change case Brady Trainor
2016-09-15 9:05 ` Tino Calancha
2016-09-15 9:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-09-15 13:43 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-09-15 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-15 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-14 20:33 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-15 19:59 ` Ken Brown
2016-11-15 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-30 22:22 ` Ken Brown
2017-05-21 6:17 ` Paul Eggert
[not found] <<m2poo5u9c9.fsf@bradyt.com>
[not found] ` <<mvmeg4la4w6.fsf@hawking.suse.de>
[not found] ` <<3c49fbe5-9ae0-4ae2-8fa0-3c44fa85c981@default>
[not found] ` <<83d1k56wwt.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-09-15 14:57 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-15 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-15 16:03 ` Ken Brown
2016-09-15 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-10 22:25 ` Ken Brown
2016-11-11 1:42 ` Ken Brown
2016-11-11 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-11 16:23 ` Michael Albinus
2016-11-11 21:42 ` Ken Brown
2016-11-12 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-13 13:14 ` Ken Brown
2016-11-15 19:58 ` Michael Albinus
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