But Alan, your link to the vim document perfectly described smartcase in the same way as asymmetric case-sensitivity. Perhaps you shouldn’t post after your fourth cup of coffee!

By the way, I was willing to take on the case-sensitive versus case-insensitive controversy, but even I would dare not tread into the “vi versus emacs” debate!

[...] We have reviewed what case sensitivity is, and what the options are. How should we decide which one to use? [...]

No, I was wrong. Vim’s smartcase is something else. You think I would have learnt my lesson about posting before my first cup of coffee.

The vim name for the asymmetric case sensitivity when finding is smartcase. Being more user-friendly than emacs, vim does not enable this option by default.

Alastair,

Emacs! Of course! I was afraid it might have actually been Exco! I have updated the article to fill in this info.

Re: HFS Plus

Ahh! That explains why, during my research, I was reading conflicting rumours about Mac OS and case-sensitivity. Article updated. Thanks.

In “a” text editor? How about the text editor? Emacs uses the “Asymmetric” case sensitivity in its search commands.

[Editor's note: Alastair is referring to a section of the document which has since been updated.]

To your list of case-insensitive file systems, add HFS Plus (used on MacOS 8+). Interestingly, they recently created a variant of it called HFSX which can be case-insensitive (depending on configuration). It is case-preserving.

It quite suffers from theoretically limits.

[Editor's note: Sunny is referring to a typo, which I have now corrected. Thanks, Sunny.]

skills of a baggage-handlers indeed!.