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emacs 22.2.1 becomes confused

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (Emacs bug Tracking System)
To: "Bruce Korb" <bruce.korb <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#508 closed by Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> (Re: 
 bug#508: emacs 22.2.1 becomes confused)

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#508: emacs 22.2.1 becomes confused

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: 508-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#508: emacs 22.2.1 becomes confused
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:17:07 -0400

Since no one has offered to write a directory-case-sensitive-p function,
I've checked in Sven's first, simpler patch.  Even if it doesn't do the
completely right thing in the failure case (e.g., a vfat home directory
on GNU/Linux), all that does is fail to replace $HOME with ~, which is
hardly fatal.

After the release, if someone wants to write directory-case-sensitive-p,
we can switch to that.

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From: "Bruce Korb" <bruce.korb <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: "Bruce Korb" <bkorb <at> gnu.org>
Subject: emacs 22.2.1 becomes confused
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:03:12 -0700

Hi,

I recently re-installed my system.  For various reasons not worth
going into here,
I renamed my home directory from /home/foo to /home/Foo and re-created my
"foo" user name.  It is not possible to edit anything in the /home/Foo hierarchy
with emacs.  At all.  I can cd to the correct directory and invoke "emacs file"
and it will try to open the equivalently named file under /home/foo.  Somebody
somewhere fiddled some code such that tab-completion works correctly, but
when it comes to actually "visiting" the file, the blasted thing substitutes
"$HOME" for "/home/Foo".  Someone please be kind enough to find that
"strncasecmp" and replace it with "strncmp" and put out an emergency fix.

Thank you.  Regards, Bruce

$ /usr/bin/emacs --version
GNU Emacs 22.2.1
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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