Re: write-region is mishandling an error

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 2/9/07, Richard Bielawski <address@hidden> wrote:

> No error.  Data is 'technically' saved.

No, data is not "technically" saved. It is just saved. To NTFS,
writing on the default stream is no different that writing on a named
stream.

> If this worked then I'd have to agree that there is nothing wrong.  But
> since it doesn't I think you should either reject the original save
> attempt or let me read the data back.

I've said that there's nothing wrong with NTFS streams, so we
shouldn't think of ab:cd as an erroneous file name. You're saying
there are things wrong with Emacs half-hearted treatment of streams. I
agree. In fact, I think Emacs works with streams mostly by accident.
You cannot do "C-x C-f ab:cd", for example.

                   /L/e/k/t/u