From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 23743@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23743: 24.5; Opening output file: invalid argument, .../foo-<-4-n.el
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 22:04:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d1noq30o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7736d91-7792-4271-9568-21ca8f5743b4@default> (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:35:54 -0700 (PDT))
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:35:54 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> emacs -Q
>
> C-x C-f foo-<-4-n.el
>
> Type some text in that file buffer.
>
> C-x C-s ; try to save it.
>
> Saving file d:/usr/drew/drews-lisp-20/foo-<-4-n.el...
> basic-save-buffer-2: Opening output file: invalid argument, d:/.../foo-<-4-n.el
>
> Apparently it doesn't like `<' in a file name?
Yes, Windows doesn't allow that.
> If so, and if that is "normal", then the user should get a much
> better error message than this.
That's the error that comes from the filesystem, Emacs doesn't know
any better.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-10 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-10 17:35 bug#23743: 24.5; Opening output file: invalid argument, .../foo-<-4-n.el Drew Adams
2016-06-10 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-06-21 3:15 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-21 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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