GNU bug report logs - #508
emacs 22.2.1 becomes confused

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Bruce Korb" <bruce.korb <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:10:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #70 received at 508 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#508: emacs 22.2.1 becomes confused
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
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