From:	eyal DOT ben-david AT aks DOT com
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Message-ID:	<42256646.0046E9E9.00@aks.com>
Date:	Sun, 19 Jul 1998 15:07:20 +0200
Subject:	Re: [Q] DJGPP emacs
Mime-Version:	1.0

On 19/07/98 2:47:19 PM Eli Zaretskii  wrote:
>
>On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Eyal Ben-David wrote:
>
>> What is the command or flag to disable case sensitivity
>> for emacs buffer names ( and file completion ) ?
>
>Buffer names are *always* case-sensitive.  I can only understand why do
>you ask for this for file names, since Windows is case-insensitive.  But
>buffer names don't have to be derived from file names (there are buffers
>which don't correspond to *any* file).
>
>There is no such option, currently, even for files.  Personally, I think
>it's a bad idea.  Emacs is case-sensitive originally, so forcing it to be
>otherwise would risk breaking a lot of code.  I work on Windows 95 a lot,
>and don't have any problems remembering the case of my file names.  If you
>have special problems, please elaborate.

A minor and not critical problem:
Suppose I want to open a file Hello.h, then I type:  C-x-f h TAB.
Since the filename  starts with an uppercase letter EMACS will not find the
file.
(Win95/NT is not case sensitive but case remembering)

A less minor problem:
1. From within emacs open test  file , say  file.ext (all lowercase).
2. edit some text and save.
3. open another buffer but specify now File.Ext. (note mixed case)
   now you have two different buffers displaying the same file.
4. I want to avoid that

 Thanks
Eyal.

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