Aliases are now lowercase on win32

IPython/Extensions/ext_rehashdir.py

@@ -92,6 +92,7 b' def rehashdir_f(self,arg):'
                 for ff in os.listdir(pdir):
                     if isexec(ff) and not isjunk(ff):
                         src, tgt = execre.sub(r'\1',ff), os.path.abspath(ff)
+                        src = src.lower()
                         print "Aliasing:",src,"->",tgt
                         alias_table[src] = (0,tgt)
         # Make sure the alias table doesn't contain keywords or builtins

IPython/Magic.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 b''
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 """Magic functions for InteractiveShell.
 
-$Id: Magic.py 2344 2007-05-15 15:09:39Z vivainio $"""
+$Id: Magic.py 2345 2007-05-15 15:31:25Z vivainio $"""
 
 #*****************************************************************************
 #       Copyright (C) 2001 Janko Hauser <[e-mail]> and
@@ -2592,7 +2592,7 b' Defaulting color scheme to \'NoColor\'"""'
                         if isexec(ff) and base not in self.shell.no_alias:
                             if ext.lower() == '.exe':
                                 ff = base
-                            alias_table[base] = (0,ff)
+                            alias_table[base.lower()] = (0,ff)
                             syscmdlist.append(ff)
             # Make sure the alias table doesn't contain keywords or builtins
             self.shell.alias_table_validate()

IPython/UserConfig/ipy_profile_sh.py

@@ -80,10 +80,17 b' def main():'
         """)
         ip.magic('rehashx')
         syscmds = db.get("syscmdlist")
+    
+    # locase aliases on win#2 only
+    if os.name == 'posix':
+        mapper = lambda s:s
+    else:
+        def mapper(s): return s.lower()
+        
     for cmd in syscmds:
         #print "al",cmd
         noext, ext = os.path.splitext(cmd)
-        ip.IP.alias_table[noext] = (0,cmd)
+        ip.IP.alias_table[mapper(noext)] = (0,cmd)
     extend_shell_behavior(ip)
 
 def extend_shell_behavior(ip):