Uppercased drive letter in Lister (not only for unpacked files)

[petermad]

Yes, also for [lefttabs], [righttabs] if you have saved tabs and switch to one of those tabs.

And for [LeftHistory] and [RightHistory] but not if it is only the entries with #n in them that has the capital drive letter

[ghisler(Author)]

If the path= in sections [left] and [right] has an uppercase drive letter AND DrivesShowUpcase is not present OR set to -1 (or 1 of course), then Lister shows the directory info for folders with uppercase drive letter.

That's correct: -1 is undefined, so TC will not always change the drive letters. I will update the help.

[Usher]

2ghisler(Author)
What is correct? -1 is defined in Help as a default value and it's definitely <=0 so according to Help it means "Show as lowercase" by default.
What changes do you want to write to Help?

[Horst.Epp]

Are I'm the only one which finds the disccussion about this very (un)importand feature or error
a liitle bit oversized

[Usher]

2Horst.Epp
Never coded for Linux, right? ;-P

[Horst.Epp]

2Horst.Epp
Never coded for Linux, right? ;-P

Wrong
I even managed some years HP-UX servers and scripting was part of the job of course.
But in Windows I don't care about the case of Drive letters.

[ghisler(Author)]

What is correct? -1 is defined in Help as a default value and it's definitely <=0 so according to Help it means "Show as lowercase" by default.

That's exactly what isn't correct: Why should there be 0 and -1 if they both do the same?
0 was meant as "Show as lowercase", while -1 is "undefined", in most cases it's the same as "Show as lowercase", though.

[Usher]

0 was meant as "Show as lowercase", while -1 is "undefined", in most cases it's the same as "Show as lowercase", though.

But it wasn't.

I did some tests with older versions and there was a change in TC 7.50, when DrivesShowUpcase was added. You can run any older TC (f.e 7.04 or 6.03a) with a fresh ini, press Ctrl+T to open a new tab and select another drive from drive combobox, then go back to the first tab and close TC. A new tab will be saved as uppercased in [lefttabs] though [left] and [right] drive letters are lowercased when TC creates a fresh ini.

In TC7.50+ in such cases lowercased drive letters are saved. But without DrivesShowUpcase TC doesn't show the saved letter case as is when you turn on "Always show drive letter in tab title". And drive letter in environment variables (which can be used in [lefttabs] and [righttabs]) are uppercased:

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COMMANDER_DRIVE=C:
COMMANDER_EXE=C:\TotalCmd\TotalCmd.EXE
COMMANDER_INI=C:\TotalCmd\wincmd.ini
COMMANDER_PATH=C:\TotalCmd

For me default behaviour is not consistent now - either all should be shown as is or all lowercased.

[ghisler(Author)]

If you want all lowercase, just use DrivesShowUpcase=0. Where is the problem?

[ghisler(Author)]

Moderator message

Moved to Behaviour which will not be changed

[Usher]

If you want all lowercase, just use DrivesShowUpcase=0. Where is the problem?

I want to see a drive letter case as is by default rather than some random mix-up. Otherwise it's hard to guess why sometimes drive letters are uppercased.

You shouldn't force displaying lowercase when DrivesShowUpcase is undefined, but you should create lowercase entries by default. However, for me it would be enough to see drive letter case as is in current directory (breadcrumb) bar and in tooltips when hovering mouse on inactive folder tab headers.

There is also another possibility - fix letter case in ini files after setting (adding/changing) DrivesShowUpcase to 0 or 1, but I don't know how to do it only once.