From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists. Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:40:41 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8764d8u085.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <85lkm4zbfa.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <854pssz8u7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <45638B07.2090201@student.lu.se> <85wt5oxtly.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <456396EA.9030207@student.lu.se> <857ixoxq6e.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85mz6jol1d.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164220868 4650 80.91.229.2 (22 Nov 2006 18:41:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:41:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 22 19:41:06 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 1Gmx1j-0003Hx-66 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:40:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gmx1i-00019Q-Nz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:40:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gmx1W-00017a-2F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:40:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gmx1V-00017G-ID for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:40:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gmx1V-00017B-Dk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:40:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.73] (helo=heller.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gmx1Q-0006Ik-Gn; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:40:36 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-254-129.inter.net.il [83.130.254.129]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id BBK22182 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:40:33 +0200 (IST) Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: <85mz6jol1d.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:03:42 +0100) 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:62683 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: David Kastrup > Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:03:42 +0100 > > > The same trouble exists with hard links. > > No. With a hard link you _can_ decide whether writing a file would > conflict with an existing file without actually doing the write by > looking at the existing file names in the current directory. I can do the same on Windows (and on any other case-insensitive filesystem). > >> Things like file name completion are simply something which is > >> impossible to get right. > > > > Really? Then how come this has been satisfactorily solved several > > times already, both in Emacs and in ports of Bash? > > It has? > > So why do I get "No Match" when typing > > C-x C-f /c/my docu > > when there is a directory > > /c/My Documents/ > > and opening > > /c/my documents/test.tex > > works. You have a buggy port of Bash. Get a better one. > And why doesn't Emacs realize that it already has this file > open when I now do > > C-x C-f /c/My Documents/test.tex RET > > and opens another buffer for it? Because the code that does TRT in this case is only compiled into Emacs on Windows.