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Originally posted by RomuloP View Post[...] is a complete mess... For example in Unicode [...]
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Originally posted by milkylainen View PostUmm.. No?
You can put it in an application. You list all entries in a path and do a case insensitive search for a file name before you open it.
It's absolutely trivial.
Originally posted by milkylainen View PostIt's exactly what the kernel will have to do if you do a camelcase name open in a case insensitive mountpoint.
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Personally I'm against case insensitivity for regular OS usage, and I think case sensitivity was a mistake for many reasons (performance, bugs with applications caching directory listings, etc.).
But for wine, and running applications that interact with wine prefixes? This is amazing. Wine's implementation for case insensitivity is accurate, but incredibly slow (for example, no cache). This isn't really their fault, and more just a fact that this isn't available in the kernel. Because of this, many applications run under wine (especially modded Skyrim/Fallout etc.) are just incredibly slow, especially on HDDs. Not to mention that modding games manually is incredibly frustrating due to mods using different casings for directories. This is honestly a game changer for me (pardon the pun).
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I don't know why, but case insensitivity under linux makes me feel all sticky and filthy. Not a feature for me, that's for sure.
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Originally posted by xfcemint View Post
BecauseILikeToKnowWhereEachWordBegins and_i_dont_like_typing_underscores and-the-minuses-can-be-confused-with-options.
and i dont like holding the shift key at all and rememberring what is the correct case.
And I expect automatic completition to be able to work on case-insensitive basis.
It sounds like what you want, is completely unrelated to this kernel feature, but just an application feature, that good applications already have. Even my shell (zsh), does what you want when press tab. So maybe what you want is a better shell? I can recommend zsh, but I hear fish is the new cool thing that is even better, but I haven't tried it out yet.Last edited by carewolf; 29 June 2019, 04:39 AM.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View Postis that bad?
I mean he isn't saying this feature shouldn't exist.
Thankfully it is optional and not default as I have my doubts it will be much solid until some extra maturation of this patch but honestly filename spoofing is still a thing today in case-insensitive OSes what can make working precisely with complex directories a headache.
But sure everybody has its own right way of doing things, and I have nothing against it at last while the default is case-sensitiveness.Last edited by RomuloP; 28 June 2019, 10:53 PM.
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Originally posted by xfcemint View Post
Some people like only those features which benefit them, but despise all features which benefit other people.
I mean he isn't saying this feature shouldn't exist.
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I don't understand what was wrong with case sensitivity. Removing it seems like a feature regression. If one does not want to think about case, why not simply use lowercase letters exclusively when naming files? Why make it about the system in a way that potentially impacts long-established features and eventually portability between systems? Wouldn't operator flexibility and adaptation to the native and long-established *NIX culture have been easier for everyone?Last edited by chroma; 28 June 2019, 05:56 PM.
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