From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug Emacs 21.3: write-file downcasing Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 23:52:58 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030207163850.3779.LEKTU@terra.es> <2110-Fri07Feb2003191658+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <20030207182150.377E.LEKTU@terra.es> <2593-Fri07Feb2003201921+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044917565 3910 80.91.224.249 (10 Feb 2003 22:52:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 22:52:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: huug Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18iMn5-00010l-00 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 23:52:43 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18iMyH-00023a-00 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 00:04:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iMp2-0006ET-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:54:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iMof-00068n-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:54:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iMny-0005ut-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:53:38 -0500 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iMnP-0005pm-00; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:53:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE1214F53; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 23:53:02 +0100 (MET) Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Yow: I HAVE a towel. In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:39:54 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.3.50 (ia64-suse-linux) Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11550 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11550 Richard Stallman writes: |> >> We should have a `file-name-equal' predicate instead. |> > |> > I don't like the idea of distorting Emacs that much for the sake of |> > Windows. |> |> It isn't Windows-specific: Emacs needs it handle any |> case-preserving-but-indifferent file system correctly. |> |> Are there any other such systems we are trying to support? |> I don't think so. HFS on MacOS X, for example. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."