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

From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 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 12:03:08 -0400

On 9/15/2016 11:20 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 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.

FWIW, this is also true on Cygwin:


https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive

Ken
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