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Re: Built in function 'user-login-name "does the wrong thing"


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Built in function 'user-login-name "does the wrong thing"
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:03:59 +0200

> From: David Johnson <djohnson@mdli.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:23:45 +0000
> 
> In GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-*-nt5.0.2195) of Tue Jun 13 2000 on buffy
> configured using `configure NT'
> 
> When I use the function 'user-login-name' with no arguments to get the name
> of the current user, it returns an all-lower-case result.  So in a Lisp
> Interaction buffer I get this:
> 
>       (user-login-name)^J
>       "djohnson"
> 
> When I use it with the current user UID as an argument, I get a string with
> case mappings that match the username as reported by the Domain Controller:
> 
>       (user-login-name (user-uid))^J
>       "DJohnson"

I cannot reproduce this in Emacs 21.1, so I guess this problem is
solved.



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