Re: Bug Emacs 21.3: write-file downcasing

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

|>      >> We should have a `file-name-equal' predicate instead.
|>     > 
|>     > I don't like the idea of distorting Emacs that much for the sake of
|>     > Windows.
|> 
|>     It isn't Windows-specific: Emacs needs it handle any
|>     case-preserving-but-indifferent file system correctly.
|> 
|> Are there any other such systems we are trying to support?
|> I don't think so.

HFS on MacOS X, for example.

Andreas.

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