Re: set-auto-mode on case insensitive OS:es [Was: Re: CC Mode 5.30]

[Jason Rumney]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>       Also, NT file systems can distinguish between upper and lower case
>       chars visually, even if it doesn't matter when finding files. Thus
>       it could be an idea to try to match the name case sensitively
>       first, and if that fails do another attempt with a downcased name
>       (or with case-fold-search set).
> 
> Whether this would really give the desired results is a tricky
> question.  I think that we had better wait for MS-Windows users to tell
> us if that would really work well with their typical patterns of usage.

I don't think so. Other tools have a tendancy to change the case of
the file name at random.