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Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current work
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Chong Yidong |
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Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:30:11 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.91 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> There's no need to investigate, as the problem is clearly evident:
> Windows-based filesystems don't allow certain characters in file
> names, and `*' is one of these characters. So a file name such as
> `#*scratch*#20913s5z#' is not allowed.
>
> To properly fix such a problem, Emacs needs to know the type of
> filesystem of a file. Then we could employ the same technique as the
> Windows port does now, but conditioned by the filesystem, not the OS.
>
> However, I don't think we have infrastructure for querying the file
> about its filesystem type, do we?
If our initial attempt fails, we could silently try falling back to a
different format that is appropriate for Windows-based filesystems.
- [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem, Chong Yidong, 2008/02/23
- Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/02/23
- Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem,
Chong Yidong <=
- Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem, David Kastrup, 2008/02/23
- Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem, Jason Rumney, 2008/02/24
- Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/24
- Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/25
- Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/25