From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lee Houghton <lee@theconnectgroup.net>
Cc: 18628@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18628: Emacs hangs trying to open "CON" file (on Windows)
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 19:51:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bnprok0t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJGHfpQuyEhy3p39XC5eZWfs_bmFdaGqtyH23_bcuO4wYyMTOw@mail.gmail.com>
> From: Lee Houghton <lee@theconnectgroup.net>
> Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 16:20:38 +0100
>
> I don't know if this can really be counted as a bug, as CON is the
> windows equivalent of /dev/stdin, (and of course I deserve it for
> using Windows), but it is a frustrating problem, especially when I am
> using helm-mode and trying to get my "config" directory and it decides
> to read the "CON" file instead.
Please provide a reproducible recipe starting with "emacs -Q". Just
typing "C-x C-f con TAB TAB" doesn't show CON in the completions, so
I'm unsure how you bump into this problem.
> To reproduce the problem:
>
> Open the scratch buffer, execute (find-file "CON") and watch emacs hang.
Well, then don't do that, right? There cannot be a usable file by
that name on Windows, so why would you need to try visiting it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-04 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-04 15:20 bug#18628: Emacs hangs trying to open "CON" file (on Windows) Lee Houghton
2014-10-04 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-10-04 16:57 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-05 11:33 ` Lee Houghton
2014-10-05 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-08 22:18 ` Noam Postavsky
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