GNU bug report logs - #8093
etags: Downcase drive letters, for consistency with Emacs proper.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:13:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 8093 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 8093 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8093: etags: Downcase drive letters,
	for consistency with Emacs proper.
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:33:47 +0200

> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:11:36 +0100
> From: Francesco Potortì= <pot <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, owner <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 8093 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> >Emacs downcases drive letters when canonicalizing file names on
> >Microsoft Windows, but etags upcases them.  etags should be consistent
> >with Emacs.  I found this problem by code inspection, because there's
> >a macro 'upcase' that normally isn't used in etags.c; its only use is
> >in the section of code that upcases drive letters.  Here's a proposed
> >patch.
> 
> Looks reasonable and I see no compatibility issues.  Please install it.

Agreed.

Thanks, Paul.
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