From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Arensburger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Emacs 21.1 magic filename quoting Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:29:29 -0400 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020411122929.A15350@nerafo.glue.umd.edu> References: <20020410183606.C9045@nerafo.glue.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018544289 18637 127.0.0.1 (11 Apr 2002 16:58:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:58:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andrew Arensburger , bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16vhtg-0004qU-00 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:58:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16vhSv-0001sI-00; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:30:29 -0400 Original-Received: from po4.glue.umd.edu ([128.8.10.124]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16vhS0-0001ju-00 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:29:32 -0400 Original-Received: from nerafo.umd.edu (IDENT:root@nerafo.umd.edu [129.2.8.118]) by po4.glue.umd.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3BGTTX04219; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:29:30 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from nerafo.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nerafo.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA15488; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:29:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from arensb@localhost) by nerafo.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA15484; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:29:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Andreas Schwab Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from schwab@suse.de on Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:23:59PM +0200 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:571 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:571 On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:23:59PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Andrew Arensburger writes: > |> Summary: Emacs refuses to read files in "/:". > > Have you tried using "/:/:/a/b/c" for the name? At first glance, this workaround appears to work. I'd rather fix it properly, though. The main reason I wrote was that I'm willing to work on fixing it, but wanted to approach you first and see if I should do so, or if there's deep magic involved that I shouldn't mess with. In particular, Elisp strings may contain \0, which is IMO unlikely to appear in any filename (and cannot appear in a Unix filename). Would it be possible to use "/\0" for quoting? -- Andrew Arensburger, Systems guy University of Maryland arensb@glue.umd.edu Office of Information Technology If you can read this, thank your network administrator.