From: John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Woes of New Language Support
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:52:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d3530220907280752v677873edhfed8599ebaefa3cc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090728151111.c277f46c.eekee57@fastmail.fm>
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis<eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:39:46 +0100
> Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
>
>> >the unicode proposal says that matches depend on (re, locale, input).
>> >not just (re, input). i would think that is not acceptable.
>>
>> it's not just the unicode people. shell file name matching takes locale into account
>> which often makes it case-independent (even with case-dependent
>> file systems). i hate them all.
>>
>
> You've got me wondering why anyone would want case-sensitive filename
> matching. I don't understand what could be worth the regular irritation
> I experience at having to get the case exactly right.
>
This is not VMS! This is Plan 9. There are rules.
John
--
"I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS
reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C,
Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-28 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-26 1:55 akumar
2009-07-26 5:08 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-26 7:41 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-07-26 14:32 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-28 10:39 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-07-28 14:11 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-28 14:52 ` John Floren [this message]
2009-07-28 17:46 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-26 9:04 ` Salman Aljammaz
2009-07-26 13:48 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-26 14:12 ` tlaronde
2009-07-26 14:24 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-26 17:56 ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-07-26 18:39 ` Jack Johnson
2009-07-27 0:28 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-26 11:43 Akshat Kumar
2009-07-26 12:01 Akshat Kumar
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