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25.0.93; Drive name on windows should be uppercased

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From: Lervåg, Alf <Alf.Lervag <at> Sporveien.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 25.0.93; Drive name on windows should be uppercased
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 09:50:36 +0000

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Running M-x eshell and then pwd gives:



~ $ pwd

c:/Users/alfler



The expected result is C:/Users/alfler



This causes issues when using webpack from eshell, since webpack assumes

that the drive name is in upper case.



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Message #8 received at 23691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Alf.Lervag <at> Sporveien.com
Cc: 23691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23691: 25.0.93; Drive name on windows should be uppercased
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 13:38:56 -0400

> Running M-x eshell and then pwd gives:
>
> ~ $ pwd
>
> c:/Users/alfler
>
> The expected result is C:/Users/alfler

What does the following return:

M-: (expand-file-name default-directory)

That's all that eshell appears to do.

Message #11 received at 23691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alf Lervåg <alf <at> lervag.net>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "23691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <23691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#23691: 25.0.93; Drive name on windows should be uppercased
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 20:46:33 +0200

Yes, that is correct. eshell/pwd just uses the value of default-directory which is "c:/Users/alfler". 

Alf Lervåg

> Den 3. juni 2016 kl. 19:39 skrev Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>:
> 
> 
>> Running M-x eshell and then pwd gives:
>> 
>> ~ $ pwd
>> 
>> c:/Users/alfler
>> 
>> The expected result is C:/Users/alfler
> 
> What does the following return:
> 
> M-: (expand-file-name default-directory)
> 
> That's all that eshell appears to do.
> 

Message #14 received at 23691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Alf Lervåg <alf <at> lervag.net>
Cc: "23691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <23691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#23691: 25.0.93; Drive name on windows should be uppercased
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 15:30:27 -0400

> This causes issues when using webpack from eshell, since webpack assumes
> that the drive name is in upper case.

It seems to me that the actual issue is with Node.js, not Emacs.

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/6624

Message #17 received at 23691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alf Lervåg <alf <at> lervag.net>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 23691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23691: 25.0.93; Drive name on windows should be uppercased
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 21:38:07 +0200

I agree.

Alf Lervåg

> Den 3. juni 2016 kl. 21:30 skrev Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>:
> 
> 
>> This causes issues when using webpack from eshell, since webpack assumes
>> that the drive name is in upper case.
> 
> It seems to me that the actual issue is with Node.js, not Emacs.
> 
> https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/6624

Message #20 received at 23691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alf Lervåg <alf <at> lervag.net>
Cc: 23691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rgm <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23691: 25.0.93; Drive name on windows should be uppercased
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2016 13:13:52 +0300

> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 21:38:07 +0200
> From: Alf Lervåg <alf <at> lervag.net>
> Cc: 23691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Alf Lervåg
> 
> > Den 3. juni 2016 kl. 21:30 skrev Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>:
> > 
> > 
> >> This causes issues when using webpack from eshell, since webpack assumes
> >> that the drive name is in upper case.
> > 
> > It seems to me that the actual issue is with Node.js, not Emacs.
> > 
> > https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/6624

Emacs on Windows always downcased the drive letter, and I see no
reason to change that long-standing behavior now.  Packages that
support Windows should work with upper- and lower-case drive letters
alike; if they don't, please submit bug reports to the respective
maintainers.

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