Charles Campbell wrote:
> Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> > On 29/12/08 16:56, Charles Campbell wrote:
> >
> >> Markus Heidelberg wrote:
> >>
> >>> Charles Campbell, 29.12.2008:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Tom Link wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>> When I try to rename a file 1.PDF to 1.pdf, then I find the file got
> >>>>>> lost! I
> >>>>>> can't find it any other where. But I have backup them up with lucky.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> [..]
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You might have more luck by using some command line tool for this, I
> >>>>> presume.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [..]
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> I'll have to try this out -- I don't have a linux box with a fat32
> >>>> mounted drive immediately available
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> dd if=/dev/zero of=fat32.img bs=4k count=10k
> >>> mkfs.vfat -F 32 fat32.img
> >>> mkdir mount
> >>> mount -o loop,umask=000 fat32.img mount/ # as root
> >>> cd mount
> >>> touch file1.PDF
> >>> vim .
> >>>
> >>> Then renaming with 'R' to file1.pdf or similar deletes the file.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Thanks -- although I already knew how to make a fat32 partition -- there
> >> are reasons why I don't want to make a fat32 partition on the machine
> >> I'm currently working with.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Chip Campbell
> >>
> >
> > That's your choice of course, but as shown (a FAT32 image as a file on a
> > Linux partition) it would still not be visible to a Windows kernel. Of
> > course you might prefer to do it at home rather than on the job.
> >
> Well, its lunchtime -- and I've done it -- and it appears to be a vim
> problem. Netrw is in fact calling vim's rename() function; but with
> full paths.
>
> :call rename("..fullpath../1.pdf","..fullpath../1.PDF")
>
> causes the 1.pdf file to be removed.
I had to use a USB stick to reproduce the problem.
The problem is that Vim expects the case difference to matter. So it
simply deletes the destination file before trying the rename.
I'll make a patch for this.
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