• Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    15 days ago

    I once got into it with a dev who had written an Arduino library. I reported a compile bug, and he said my environment must be broken. In fact, it was because the headers in the library were set for #include 'arduino.h', not Arduino.h. Which would work fine on the default settings for Windows and Mac, but not Linux.

  • nocturne@slrpnk.net
    1·
    16 days ago

    So I realize this is a joke, but, and I am legit asking, isn’t there a command where you can tell Linux to treat Downloads and downloads as the same thing?

    • TVA@thebrainbin.org
      2·
      16 days ago

      Maybe, but there is always the possibility that Downloads and downloads both exist in that path and in a case sensitive file system, those are going to be two completely different directories, so adding that obfuscation on top might wind up biting you later.

      • jonathan@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        15 days ago

        That’s where case-insensitive tab complete comes in. You can still tab through downloads and Downloads, and it doesn’t impact anything else.

        • TVA@thebrainbin.org
          1·
          15 days ago

          Absolutely! That’s probably the best compromise to make it easier without risking something breaking or not working as expected

    • jdnewmil@lemmy.ca
      1·
      16 days ago

      Sorta. If you put a FAT32 disk or sd card into a Linux system and mount it, it will ignore case because of the way the filenames are stored in that filesystem. However, there are a lot of important features you lose working on filesystems like that, so really it should be reserved for sneakernet with other operating systems.

  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
    1·
    15 days ago

    I ran into that same issue. When case sensitive stuff hits for rhe first time.

    Also I love linux’s cmd line. I grew up on MS-DOS and I feel like the computer hacker that I always dreamed I would be.

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        2·
        15 days ago

        This wouldn’t work.

        Well, it kind of would if you did alias downloads="cd Downloads" but then you wouldn’t cd downloads you’d just type downloads on its own.

        As other comments here already point out, you can do it with a symlink if you really want it. i.e. ln -s Downloads downloads, then you can cd downloads.

        Nowhere near the same as making everything effectively case insensitive, but it works for the odd one that you always mistype.

        There are ways to patch command completion and/or write a variant cd that does the job intelligently too, but those are harder work.

        Day-late edit that no-one will see: The answer is bind "set completion-ignore-case on". It’s embarrassing how simple this is and how long it took me to find it. I may have been trying to emulate this feature in other ways for a long time.