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bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCA
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase. |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Jan 2016 08:15:19 -0800 (PST) |
> > Okay. But (1) he _is_ able to do it using `mv foo Foo', and
> > (2) MS Windows is also case-insensitive for files and folders,
> > and I can easily use `R' to rename a directory `foo' to `FOO',
> > and vice versa. (Emacs asks me to confirm that I want to rename,
> > but that's all.)
>
> For some value of "easily", yes. On the C source level, Emacs works
> very hard (a.k.a. "jumps through hoops") to allow you doing that
> easily, and it does that only for MS-Windows and MS-DOS, whose
> filesystems are known to be case-insensitive. OS X doesn't have that
> privilege.
Ah, so that's the bug, then. Emacs does not know that OS X is
case-insensitive and it doesn't have code to special-case it as it
does for MS Windows.
> If OS X filesystems are always case-insensitive, perhaps the same code
> should also be compiled on that system. If some of OS X filesystems
> are case-sensitive, we can only do that if Emacs can know which one is
> it.
That sounds right to me.
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Keith David Bershatsky, 2016/01/03
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., John Wiegley, 2016/01/03
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Drew Adams, 2016/01/03
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., John Wiegley, 2016/01/03
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Drew Adams, 2016/01/03
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/04
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase.,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., John Wiegley, 2016/01/04
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Drew Adams, 2016/01/04
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/04
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/04
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., John Wiegley, 2016/01/04
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/04
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/04
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Drew Adams, 2016/01/04
bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/03
bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Keith David Bershatsky, 2016/01/03