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


On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> 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.

Chris, I suppose there's another bet between you and Corinna floaing
around in the cygwin-developers land somewhere, but I'll bite.

No need to patch vim.  This is *exactly* the kind of situation where
check_case:strict is useful.  With CYGWIN=check_case:strict, vim won't
even edit the file "x.sh" if the file is actually named "X.sh".
Incidentally, "check_case:adjust" might also help.
	Igor
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