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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 22300@debbugs.gnu.org, jwiegley@gmail.com, esq@lawlist.com
Subject: bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 08:15:19 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c0d60d98-3525-4ec7-9844-1a249c0db5d0@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83twmt73g6.fsf@gnu.org>

> > Okay.  But (1) he _is_ able to do it using `mv foo Foo', and
> > (2) MS Windows is also case-insensitive for files and folders,
> > and I can easily use `R' to rename a directory `foo' to `FOO',
> > and vice versa.  (Emacs asks me to confirm that I want to rename,
> > but that's all.)
> 
> For some value of "easily", yes.  On the C source level, Emacs works
> very hard (a.k.a. "jumps through hoops") to allow you doing that
> easily, and it does that only for MS-Windows and MS-DOS, whose
> filesystems are known to be case-insensitive.  OS X doesn't have that
> privilege.

Ah, so that's the bug, then.  Emacs does not know that OS X is
case-insensitive and it doesn't have code to special-case it as it
does for MS Windows.

> If OS X filesystems are always case-insensitive, perhaps the same code
> should also be compiled on that system.  If some of OS X filesystems
> are case-sensitive, we can only do that if Emacs can know which one is
> it.

That sounds right to me.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-04 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-03 20:57 bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase Keith David Bershatsky
2016-01-03 21:10 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04  0:47   ` Drew Adams
2016-01-04  1:11     ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04  1:37       ` Drew Adams
2016-01-04 15:46         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 16:15           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-01-04 19:22           ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04 19:27             ` Drew Adams
2016-01-04 19:45               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 19:44             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 19:48               ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04 20:31                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:44     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04  3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04  4:19 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2016-01-04 15:50   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 17:41 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2016-01-04 19:12   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 19:45 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2016-01-04 20:24   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 20:51 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2016-01-05 16:46   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-05 17:27 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2016-01-05 18:28   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-06  3:56 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2016-01-06 15:40   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-06 19:57 ` Keith David Bershatsky
     [not found] <<m2a8oml6tk.wl%esq@lawlist.com>
     [not found] ` <<m24meutlmk.fsf@newartisans.com>
     [not found]   ` <<a936bee4-3375-45cf-ab35-62e36a21f003@default>
     [not found]     ` <<83vb7973iy.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-01-04 16:14       ` Drew Adams

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