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Re: [David Ponce <address@hidden>] Re: CC Mode 5.30
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Martin Stjernholm |
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Re: [David Ponce <address@hidden>] Re: CC Mode 5.30 |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Jul 2003 22:10:36 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/20.7 (gnu/linux) |
Martin Stjernholm <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: David Ponce <address@hidden>
/.../
>> That is definitively the case, when system-type is windows-nt (or
>> cygwin), Emacs can't distinguish ".c" from ".C".
I've now changed the autoload directives in cc-mode.el so that ".c"
comes before ".C" in auto-mode-alist. Still, I think the match method
used in `set-auto-mode' should be changed:
>> Here is the relevant code in function `set-auto-mode' in files.el,
>> that set `case-fold-search' before trying to `string-match' regexps
>> in `auto-mode-alist':
>>
>> (let ((alist auto-mode-alist)
>> (mode nil))
>> ;; Find first matching alist entry.
>> (let ((case-fold-search
>> (memq system-type '(vax-vms windows-nt cygwin))))
>> (while (and (not mode) alist)
>> (if (string-match (car (car alist)) name)
>> ....
>
> Wouldn't it be better if it downcased the name and matched it case
> sensitively instead? The "normal" case in case sensitive systems is
> afaik lowercase, so patterns that are written without special
> attention to it use lowercase characters and would match if the name
> was simply downcased.
>
> Also, NT file systems can distinguish between upper and lower case
> chars visually, even if it doesn't matter when finding files. Thus it
> could be an idea to try to match the name case sensitively first, and
> if that fails do another attempt with a downcased name (or with
> case-fold-search set).
- Re: [David Ponce <address@hidden>] Re: CC Mode 5.30, Martin Stjernholm, 2003/07/05
- Re: [David Ponce <address@hidden>] Re: CC Mode 5.30,
Martin Stjernholm <=
- Re: [David Ponce <address@hidden>] Re: CC Mode 5.30, Jason Rumney, 2003/07/06
- set-auto-mode on case insensitive OS:es [Was: Re: CC Mode 5.30], Martin Stjernholm, 2003/07/06
- Re: set-auto-mode on case insensitive OS:es [Was: Re: CC Mode 5.30], Richard Stallman, 2003/07/06
- Re: set-auto-mode on case insensitive OS:es [Was: Re: CC Mode 5.30], Jason Rumney, 2003/07/07
- Re: set-auto-mode on case insensitive OS:es [Was: Re: CC Mode 5.30], Stefan Monnier, 2003/07/07
- Re: set-auto-mode on case insensitive OS:es [Was: Re: CC Mode 5.30], Jason Rumney, 2003/07/07
- Re: set-auto-mode on case insensitive OS:es [Was: Re: CC Mode 5.30], Richard Stallman, 2003/07/08
Re: [David Ponce <address@hidden>] Re: CC Mode 5.30, Tak Ota, 2003/07/07