Re: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.4 (2005 Oct 15, compiled Oct 17 2005 11:54:34

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:15:34PM +0200, Christoph Jeksa wrote:
>there is a bug in this version:
>
>Supposed, you have a file X.sh ( exactly in this spelling ).  If you
>enter:
>
>vim x.sh ( also exactly in this spelling )
>
>and write it back after any modification, the file will be renamed even
>to x.sh.  This behavior is very nasty if such file is used by programs
>which are case-sensitive for file names, example: SCM program perforce.

This isn't a vim problem.  Windows filename handling is case-insensitive.

I suppose that there could be a vim option to deal with this case but
that would require modifying vim, i.e., PTC* by the upstream vim
developers.

cgf

* http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC

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