[Geany] Does not recognize filetypes under Windows when written in captial letters

[Enrico Tröger]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:55:55 +0300, Yura Semashko <yurand2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Аўторак 17 Красавік 2007 14:44, Andreas Tscharner wrote:
> > Hello World, hello Enrico,
> >
> > Geany 0.11svn_r1456 (Windows) does not recognize files that have the
> > file extension in capital (or mixed) letters, for example, the file
> > foo.pas is recognized, but bar.PAS is not (and bar.Pas neither).
> > Windows is not case sensitive (but case preserving), so it does not
> > matter whether capital or small letters are used.
> > Thinking about it: Does it matter for GCC how the file extension is
> > written (.cc, .CC, .cpp, .CPP)?
> It matter for gcc:
> .C is c++ extencion
> .c is c
>
> Here is is two patches that solve the problem:
> 1) ignore case for filetype detection (use lowercase)
> 2) just add .PAS to pascal extencions
>
> Second patch don't make things worse anyway, so it is save to apply.
Thanks Andreas and Yura.

I'm not sure whether to apply the first one. And if, we should only
lowercase the basename on Windows systems, I guess users of Unix-like
systems won't expect that behaviour and probably get confused.
What do you think?

Regards,
Enrico

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