On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Michael Schaap wrote:
> On 20-Oct-2005 16:42, 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.
>
> Actually, there already is such an option...
>
> $ touch X
> $ ls -l
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mscha None 0 Nov 4 01:29 X
> $ vim x
> :wq!
> $ ls -l
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mscha None 0 Nov 4 01:30 x
> $ rm x
> $ touch X
> $ vim -c 'set backupcopy=yes' x
> :wq!
> $ ls -l
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mscha None 0 Nov 4 01:30 X
>
> See ":help backupcopy" for details. It defaults to "auto", which is
> kinda unpredictable. Set it to "yes", and it might be a bit slower, but
> won't mess with your case. :-)
More interestingly, ":help backupcopy" says:
(Vi default for Unix: "yes", otherwise: "auto")
This means that VIm treats Cygwin as non-Unix. Shouldn't the Cygwin
default be the same as for Unix?
Igor
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