[h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC

[Jeff Rancier]

Andre,

Perhaps, just exposing a customization would alleviate the need for
anticipating the platform.  I noticed that under (on XP Pro), that all
shells (COMMAND.COM, CMD.COM, 4NT.EXE, and BASH) did show the files names in
both cases, and were consistent.

Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andre Spiegel" <address@hidden>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Jeff Rancier" <address@hidden>; "Emacs Help (Windows)"
<address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC


> On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 07:00, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Try this:
> >
> > (case-fold-search (not (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt))))
>
> I hesitate to install this.  Wouldn't it be a cleaner solution if Emacs
> always used the real filenames internally, and not a down-cased
> version?  What is the rationale for that?
>
> If this can't be avoided, then is it always guaranteed that filenames
> are case-insensitive under DOS/NT?  Couldn't you "mount" a Unix
> filesystem and have case-sensitive filenames there?  What if DOS/NT
> changes so that filenames become case-sensitive there, too?  Or,
> alternatively, aren't there other architectures (e.g. VMS) where
> filenames are case-insensitive as well?
>
> To sum up, the above solution looks like a hack to me and I'd rather
> look for something cleaner.  Any ideas?
>