• calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’m with windows on this one. Case insensitive is much more ergonomics with the only sacrifice represented by this meme. And a little bit of performance of course. But the ergonomics are worth it imo.

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      3 months ago

      so cool story, on linux theres this thing called you can just not make case sensitive files, i do it a lot.

      You can also just, use a case insensitive autocomplete setup as well. If you’re using a mouse idk why you’re even talking about this so that wouldn’t matter.

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            3 months ago

            If I have two folders in my directory, Dir1 and dir2, what does d <TAB> autocomplete to and what should it do?

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              3 months ago

              In the case of zsh it will quite happily do either and ask you which you meant just like if they were called Dir1 and Dir2. Also works if you have a dir1 and Dir2 in the same directory as well

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              3 months ago

              it depends on your shell configs. In my case it sits at dir/Dir (case insensitive) waiting for me to specify 1 or 2, where as if you disable it, it’s dependent on whether or not you type d or D.

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              3 months ago

              In fish it would immediately expand to dir2.

              If you have “Dir1” and “DIR2” and you type “cd d”, your prompt will look like in the next picture. Fish automatically transforms “d” into “D”, because there is no dir starting with the lowercase “d”.

              On a subsequent <TAB> you’ll get a list of dirs matching your prompt so far in which you choose an entry with the cursor key and enter it with the enter key.

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        3 months ago

        When you say "canse insensitive file*, do you mean lowercase files? Or is there an option?

        Idk why we talking about mouses. When I’m on Linux, most of the time it’s through ssh.

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          3 months ago

          either or, whatever the fuck you want really.

          You can just not use capital letters if you feel like it. Works pretty well. Or just use a case insensitive shell handler for pretending it’s not actually cased at all.

          Hell im pretty sure you could just render all of the text in a certain case and call it a day lol.