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: Foreign file names on MS-Windows Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:22:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206246182 3868 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2008 04:23:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:23:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 23 05:23:32 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JdHk2-00018y-5J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:23:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JdHjR-0002tm-ES for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:22:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JdHjK-0002pi-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:22:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JdHjJ-0002pU-N2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:22:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JdHjJ-0002pR-IZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:22:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il ([84.95.2.7]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JdHjJ-0004kq-E0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:22:45 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.236.188]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0JY6003M024LXYE1@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:36:24 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:93243 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:56:51 -0400 > > >> I.e. why fiddle with Vw32_downcase_file_names? > > > Because 8+3 aliases are reported in all caps, as the comment says, so > > instead of "some foreign file name.mp3" you get something like > > "ABCDE~45.MP3", and I fear that not every alist in Emacs that supports > > file recognition by extension includes both lower- and upper-case > > variants. Also, lower-casing the 8+3 aliases makes them slightly less > > ugly, IMO. > > The ugliness factor is irrelevant: those files are ugly anyway, and > having them in all-caps makes it arguably (to me) more clear what's > going on. > > But the issue of recognition of all-caps extension is a good argument, > that's the one that should be in the comment. Is it worth the trouble to downcase only the extension?