From: John Paul Wallington <jpw@shootybangbang.com>
Subject: Re: `eshell-under-cygwin-p' etc. inappropriate?
Date: 07 Aug 2002 07:10:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8765yn8ahd.fsf@bundalo.shootybangbang.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.SUN.3.91.1020807082239.16955I-100000@is
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, John Wiegley wrote:
>
> > >>>>> On Tue Aug 6, Eli writes:
> >
> > > On 7 Aug 2002, John Paul Wallington wrote:
> > >> Maybe `eshell-under-cygwin-p' should be called something else?
> >
> > > What difference in behavior is that test supposed to handle?
> > > Perhaps there's a cleaner way of taking care of that problem.
> >
> > I think he wants a function that means "DOS-ish behavior for certain
> > things".
>
> Sure, but I'd like to know the gory details. Sometimes you can eat the
> cake and have it, too.
It was only for XEmacs Cygwin build: AFAICR, executables have
extensions such as .exe and the file system was case-insensitive (is
that the right phrase? eg README and ReadMe meant the same file,
although the filename's case was retained).
--
John Paul Wallington
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-07 6:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-06 9:24 `eshell-under-cygwin-p' etc. inappropriate? John Paul Wallington
2002-08-06 20:28 ` John Wiegley
2002-08-07 5:06 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-08-07 5:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-07 5:23 ` John Wiegley
2002-08-07 5:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-07 6:10 ` John Paul Wallington [this message]
2002-08-07 20:32 ` John Wiegley
2002-08-07 21:53 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-08-08 4:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-10 0:44 ` John Wiegley
2002-08-08 17:23 ` Tak Ota
2002-08-11 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-12 18:19 ` Tak Ota
2002-08-13 9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-10 0:05 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-08-10 0:06 ` John Wiegley
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