Re: Case folding for auto-mode-alist

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>     Yes, you can get that by setting auto-mode-case-fold.
>>     But for some reason that still escapes me, Richard is strongly opposed to
>>     activating it by default.
>
>> Because it is too drastic for the actual problem, and likely to often
>> be wrong.
>
> Yes, that is your claim.  I have seen no evidence that it will "likely" and
> "often" be "wrong".  As a matter of fact I have seen no evidence that it will
> ever be "wrong".

.c vs .C for C vs. C++ files is probably the most relevant item, and
.Z vs .z for compress vs uh, pack? files could be one, though in
practice one would uncompress both of those "legacy" formats with
gunzip.

-- 
David Kastrup