From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#67540: 29.1; Emacs on Windows incorrectly capitalizes some environment variables Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 12:34:40 -0800 Message-ID: References: <835y1ibdj2.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20857"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jporterbugs@gmail.com, 67540@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 01 21:36:06 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 1r9AF4-0005Aq-Ez for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 30, 2023, at 11:14=E2=80=AFPM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >=20 > =EF=BB=BF >>=20 >> From: Dave Abrahams >> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:13:03 -0800 >> Cc: Jim Porter , >> 67540@debbugs.gnu.org >>=20 >> 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... >>=20 >> 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? >>=20 >> I don't think this is that hard to fix without breaking anybody. Simply m= aintain a mapping of in-Emacs >> upcased environment variable names to the lowercased counterparts from wh= ich they came, and >> map back when setting up a process environment. >=20 > This will not work reliably, because many programs invoked by Emacs as > sub-processes are ported Unix and GNU/Linux programs, and those expect > PATH, not Path in the environment.