GNU bug report logs - #24441
24.5; rename directory in dired to change case

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Brady Trainor <brady <at> bradyt.com>

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 04:01:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 22300

Found in versions 24.5, 25.1.50

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 24441 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 24441 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, schwab <at> suse.de, brady <at> bradyt.com
Subject: Re: bug#24441: 24.5; rename directory in dired to change case
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:20:44 +0300

> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 07:57:40 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: schwab <at> suse.de, brady <at> bradyt.com, 24441 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> My point was that it is not necessarily the case that, for Emacs,
> _just because_ a filesystem is case-insensitive, you cannot
> rename a file to the same name but with a different letter case.

See the bug I pointed to, where John explained that OS X filesystems
can be either case-sensitive or case-insensitive.  Unlike on Windows,
Emacs cannot assume file names are always case-insensitive, so a
run-time test is needed, and someone needs to write the code to do it.
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