From: Andrew Arensburger <arensb@Glue.umd.edu>
Cc: Andrew Arensburger <arensb@Glue.umd.edu>
Subject: Emacs 21.1 magic filename quoting
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:36:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020410183606.C9045@nerafo.glue.umd.edu> (raw)
Summary: Emacs refuses to read files in "/:".
If I'm reading "files.el" correctly, Emacs prepends "/:"
to filenames to indicate that magic has been performed on the
filename, and should not be performed again, then strips off the "/:"
before opening the file.
The problem is that under a standard AFS installation, /: is a
symbolic link to /afs/<cell-name> (/afs/glue.umd.edu, in our case).
Thus, when I try to edit "/:/a/b/c", Emacs tries to open "/a/b/c".
Yes, I can take the "file-name-non-special" element out of
"file-name-handler-alist", but that breaks opening a file with
wildcards.
Perhaps "\\`/#" would be a better pattern. Or, ideally, it
should be possible to pick a different prefix on a site-wide basis.
Is this desirable? Should I try to work on it and send in a patch?
--
Andrew Arensburger, Systems guy University of Maryland
arensb@glue.umd.edu Office of Information Technology
Zeit fliegt wie ein Pfeil, Obstfliegen haben bananen gern.
next reply other threads:[~2002-04-10 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-10 22:36 Andrew Arensburger [this message]
2002-04-11 11:23 ` Emacs 21.1 magic filename quoting Andreas Schwab
2002-04-11 16:29 ` Andrew Arensburger
2002-04-11 19:42 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-12 19:49 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-12 21:02 ` Andrew Arensburger
2002-04-15 18:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-17 16:03 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-17 17:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-11 19:16 ` Andrew Arensburger
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