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


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.  :-)

 - Michael

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