[TxMt] Beware of creating files with names that differ only in case!

[James Tu]

This has happened to me before, too.  The trickier thing is to trying  
to remove the file that is some sort of pointer...you basically  
can't.  If you delete either one of the files, it removes both from  
the list.

-James


On Aug 16, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Jay Soffian wrote:

>
> On Aug 16, 2007, at 2:38 PM, Chris Fonnesbeck wrote:
>
>> Why on earth did creating a *new* file in a project apparently just
>> create some sort of symbolic link to an existing file?? 2  
>> different files
>> "Distributions.py" and "distributions.py" both appeared in the  
>> project list,
>> and both had their own tabs. Does this have something to do with  
>> having
>> files that differ only in case? Very frustrating.
>
> Hmm, the fact that I can do this seems like a bug:
>
> <Picture 2.png>
> I just created a new project, then selected "New File..." multiple  
> times, providing the same name each time.
>
> Your situation is slightly different, but arguably TextMate should  
> not allow the same underlying file to appear in the drawer more  
> than once.
>
> j.
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