Even worse, many components will ignore the XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR var so even if you manually change it to $HOME/downloads (lower-case) it will often break things.

If a directory has multiple words in it I usually do kebab case: i-like-mine-in-a-way-i-can-read-them-properly. Both easier to read and type than pascal case.

For more complex filenames I use a combination of kebab-case and snake_case, where the underscore separates portions of the file name and kebab-case the parts of those portions. E.g. movie-title_release-date-or-year_technical-specifications.mp4

No, it will probably go to "Documents", and if you hit tab again it should go to "Downloads". (Assuming you have the normal default folders)

bash's autocomplete fails (at least with default settings), but e.g. zsh can figure out what you mean

Not with a decent autocomplete. It will look for a folder starting with a small d and if it doesn't exist it looks at a folder with a large D.

No. Zsh. It's pretty easy to have a nice auto compl. No need for omz. After knowing poweline10k I just use it and syntax highlight plugin, manually installed. There is no need to add entire omz.

I use fish which is quite nice OOTB, although if you want a posix compliant shell, zsh with some plugins is also great.

https://ohmyz.sh/

Zsh.

Omg looks like people think omz is a shell.

I personally like xonsh despite the minor amount of wonkiness it has, it's so nice to have python available directly in your shell, it takes the "i don't care about the quality of my code i just want this shit to work with minimal effort"-ness of bash and turns it up to 13.

Is a 40 year old it guy who love linux, wat

Macos is case insensitive?!

I don't know about dangerous, but case-insensitive Unicode comparison is annoying, expensive and probably prone to footguns compared to a simple byte-for-byte equality check.

Obviously, it can be done, but I guess Linux devs don't consider it worthwhile.

(And yes, all modern filesystems support Unicode. Linux stores them as arbitrary bytes, Apple's HFS uses... some special bullshit, and Windows uses UTF-16.)

Yeah, and I think most shells will correct this case by pressing tab

Also, I constantly name files in the same directory the same thing except for case. In my ~/tmp directory I have unrelated foo.c (C source) and foo.C (C++ source).

Or up-arrow a bazillion time because you probably have it SOMEWHERE in the buffer, surely.

Don't know actually, never used a language like that. But should be easy enough to undo should one test it and end up not liking how it handles it.

I believe that type of stuff is specified in your locale, so it's possible that it would do the right thing if you've set your language to Turkish. Please try it and let us know though :)

Well letters don't really have a single canonical shape. There are many acceptable ways of rendering each. While two letters might usually look the same, it is very possible that some shape could be acceptable for one but not the other. So, it makes sense to distinguish between them in binary representation. That allows the interpreting software to determine if it cares about the difference or not.

Also, the Unicode code tables do mention which characters look (nearly) identical, so it's definitely possible to make a program interpret something like a Greek question mark the same as a semicolon. I guess it's just that no one has bothered, since it's such a rare edge case.

It would be a default on almost every distro that follows XDG specifications to have stuff like Downloads, Pictures, Videos in the $HOME folder. One of the first things I do as part of an installation is to modify ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and set a specific folder, say /data/downloads or ~/downloads, for every XDG base directory.

This is the way!

Yeah, if that's the only reason, changing your shell is overkill.

Never used or heard of it before but apparently zoxide is only for cd command, do you happen to know if there's some fuzzy match for in general?

At the moment what I do is history foo | grep -i "bar"

Doesn't tab completion solve this if there are no alternatives with matching case? sounds like a PBKAC

Sorry, down is a substring of download I don't get your point either?

Now take Android. Files are case-sensitive yet you can't create 2 files with same name if they only vary in case.

“magically know what they want” aka occasionally set you and your files on fire

i prefer not fire

It's funny that you're getting down voted for telling the truth. Nothing to be subjective about either. 😅

Would hope so

Seems like poor configuration either default or not

The only thing that annoys me is having to wrap wildcard expressions in quotes when using e.g. the find command.

But then it looks more correct, so it's hard to argue with.

Nope. Bash (at least by default on Ubuntu) doesn't have case insensitive tab completion.

Bash never does this by default

It's not default in zsh maybe, but it's default in the oh-my-zsh config most people use.

I ran zsh for a while without that config and manually configured everything and it also works, but takes quite a bit of web searching to find all the knobs to turn.

Anything that slightly improves UX is bloat.

Since Linux 5.2, you can disable case sensitivity on the filesystem level on ext4 (called case folding).

Honest question: is case sensitivity that important? Are there files named settings.ini and Settings.ini, for example, in the same folder that do different things?

For bash, this is enough:

# Bash TAB-completition enhancements
# Case-insensitive
bind "set completion-ignore-case on"
# Treat - and _ as equivalent in tab-compl
bind "set completion-map-case on"
# Expand options on the _first_ TAB press.
bind "set show-all-if-ambiguous on"

If you also add e.g.CDPATH=~/Documents, it will also always autocomplete from your Documents no matter which directory you're on.

There's probably some way to add it in bash, but if you install zsh and use the default options for everything, it just works! I especially love zsh for things "just work": not just tab completion for directories but also having completion for tools like git, docker, kubectl, etc is super easy, and you don't need any weird magic like in Bash if you want to use an alias with the same completion

sure, but what if need a subfolder of dl, like dl/source or whatever. same with documents and pictures

Pretty hilarious for mac users, of all people, to complain about centralisation. Like, don't you live in a walled garden?

Indeed, but I'm sure we can agree that it's pretty stupid for every distro to maintain its own repo. That's a lot of duplicate work, which could be spend on more useful things. Luckily flatpak is well on its way to change that

mount bind

But then you're still accessing "Downloads" and not "downloads"

https://youtu.be/oavMtUWDBTM?si=0L2KD8y5Pl_nBt_U