Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> 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 <TAB>
> 
> 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.