I've found that this little hack makes my life better on Windows
(using the Cygwin "find"), since the file system is case-insensitive,
and I never remember the precise spelling of a file's name.
Unfortunately, this hack isn't a complete solution for all similar
problems, since there are a number of places in the code that
hard-code the "-name" argument. But this works for me.
--- find-dired.el 25 Jul 2007 22:26:23 -0700 1.57
+++ find-dired.el 20 Dec 2007 17:08:13 -0800
@@ -198,7 +198,11 @@
find . -name 'PATTERN' -ls"
(interactive
"DFind-name (directory): \nsFind-name (filename wildcard): ")
- (find-dired dir (concat "-name " (shell-quote-argument pattern))))
+ (find-dired dir (concat
+ (if (memq system-type '(windows-nt cygwin))
+ "-iname "
+ "-name ")
+ (shell-quote-argument pattern))))
;; This functionality suggested by
;; From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olivier Blanc)
