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: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:02:32 -0400 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020412170232.D23992@nerafo.glue.umd.edu> References: <20020410183606.C9045@nerafo.glue.umd.edu> <20020411122929.A15350@nerafo.glue.umd.edu> <200204121949.g3CJnVt22596@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018645445 9486 127.0.0.1 (12 Apr 2002 21:04:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:04:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: arensb@Glue.umd.edu, schwab@suse.de, 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 16w8DE-0002St-00 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:04:04 +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 16w8DE-0005pt-00; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:04:04 -0400 Original-Received: from po3.glue.umd.edu ([128.8.10.123]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16w8Bm-0005gB-00; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:02:34 -0400 Original-Received: from nerafo.umd.edu (IDENT:root@nerafo.umd.edu [129.2.8.118]) by po3.glue.umd.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3CL2Wt17789; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:02:33 -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 RAA25739; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:02:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from arensb@localhost) by nerafo.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA25735; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:02:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Richard Stallman Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200204121949.g3CJnVt22596@aztec.santafe.edu>; from rms@gnu.org on Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:49:31PM -0600 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:626 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:626 On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:49:31PM -0600, Richard Stallman wrote: > At first glance, this workaround appears to work. > I'd rather fix it properly, though. > > This is a feature, not a bug. I don't think there is a bug here. The problem is that if there's a directory or symlink called "/:", then M-x find-file /:/a/b/* doesn't work: it creates an empty buffer called "*" corresponding to the file "/a/b/*", rather than opening all files in /:/a/b . I don't see any obvious ways to configure Emacs to do so, or to escape the pathname. -- Andrew Arensburger, Systems guy University of Maryland arensb@glue.umd.edu Office of Information Technology Who cares how it plays in Peoria?