From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#67540: 29.1; Emacs on Windows incorrectly capitalizes some environment variables Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:22:18 +0200 Message-ID: <83cyvr66z9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4447B955-7BC6-4641-B65D-F674D796B86E@boostpro.com> <2bbe9442-489d-f35e-8379-37326278798a@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12175"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: dave@boostpro.com, 67540@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jim Porter Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 30 08:23:18 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1r8bOH-0002xG-7L for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2023 08:23:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r8bNv-0002CZ-5M; Thu, 30 Nov 2023 02:22:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r8bNu-0002CR-9H for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2023 02:22:54 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:5::43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r8bNu-0002YP-0g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2023 02:22:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1r8bO1-0003YN-JD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2023 02:23:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 07:23:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 67540 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix Original-Received: via spool by 67540-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B67540.170132896313625 (code B ref 67540); Thu, 30 Nov 2023 07:23:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 67540) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Nov 2023 07:22:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52109 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1r8bNj-0003Xg-72 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2023 02:22:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59630) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1r8bNg-0003XP-Q9 for 67540@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2023 02:22:41 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r8bNT-0002Py-0X; Thu, 30 Nov 2023 02:22:27 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=0CxpCnpbP4YrsHNqzjugNkfGwvWzHowgq/EEYjNKS5E=; b=Sv3mp2DIK87l KmTFld1uwWjCXpeUoO+nNZj+cTvLnhNJmX1Hqpt31kXOf5zN7pp+RdQTpf2yAw/xm011D5unPd9Yk Bm3KFjt/ZEIvEfLjF7+AFuVSsjbYblVtgQTmq2mCJwWUnIhSC+Fid62q1N7Ujkqs6IA2m1USPZeLZ PUb+7EVt4pSO0ERbKe+JJVKsTqDDEWKMZ0e1ha4ekAL/dpfzqFc8OVZ1au0S8iEsMb6EoQLuWsqzE N16GqRuM88kpw3XG8gN0sljbI6MnW8s8Ogu0abTVt0RtgOlgCvVZpzfOrtsBumFRsZQTm6uV6zPhY 97+/HDSWNlTOqABaICBPsA==; In-Reply-To: <2bbe9442-489d-f35e-8379-37326278798a@gmail.com> (message from Jim Porter on Wed, 29 Nov 2023 19:42:46 -0800) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:275275 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 19:42:46 -0800 > From: Jim Porter > > On 11/29/2023 6:29 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote: > > Now issue the "set" command from a CMD shell. Notice that the "Path" > > environment variable has been renamed to "PATH" in Emacs. This renaming > > interferes with some tools operating correctly e.g. the swift compiler > > (see https://swift.org). > > This sounds like there's a bug in the Swift compiler. Environment > variables on MS-Windows are case-insensitive: > . > That documentation just covers 'getenv' (and 'wgetenv'), but I'm > reasonably certain the same applies to the Win32 APIs as well. Right. > It might be nice for Emacs to preserve the case of any existing > environment variables on MS-Windows to be on the safe side though... That's impossible in practice: we'd need to "fix" every single Lisp program and every place in the Emacs C code that compare against "PATH" case-sensitively. And what about user confusion, for those of us who mostly work on Unix, but sometimes need to work on Windows? We decided long ago to make these letter-case changes in the Windows build of Emacs, and the decision held well since then. I see no reason to change that decision now, just because some program misbehaves on Windows.