From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Glasser Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: renaming directories on windows port Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:36:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150930231 15602 80.91.229.2 (21 Jun 2006 22:50:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:50:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 22 00:50:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FtBWh-0003VH-Gn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:50:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FtBWh-0003Z3-44 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:50:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FtBWV-0003XM-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:50:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FtBWT-0003XA-N9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:50:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FtBWT-0003X1-HM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:50:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FtBhJ-0002Yp-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:01:21 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FtBWM-0003P9-Et for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:50:02 +0200 Original-Received: from parsnip.csail.mit.edu ([128.30.84.45]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:50:02 +0200 Original-Received: from glasser by parsnip.csail.mit.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:50:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 128.30.84.45 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20060505 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2sarge7)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56071 Archived-At: martin rudalics gmx.at> writes: > When `file' names a directory, and `newname' and `file' differ in case > only, the intended action of `rename-file' on Windows reasonably is to > just change the case of the directory name. The trivial patch below > should resolve this: Should this also be the semantics for other platforms with case-preserving filesystems, such as the default MacOS X filesystem? --dave