Subject: bug#508: emacs 22.2.1 becomes confused

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:54:57 -0400

> There could be a new defvar (or defconst), like this:

> (defvar case-insensitive-systems-alist
>   '(ms-dos windows-nt cygwin darwin macos vax-vms axp-vms)
>   "List of systems who have case insensitive filesystems.")

Actually, it should not be a variable but a function (and even
a file-name operation, obeying file-name-handlers):

   (directory-case-sensitive-p FILE)

-- Stefan