From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jordan Wilson <jordan.t.wilson@gmx.com>
Cc: 32989@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32989: 26.1; Opening PDF attachments in Gnus with doc-view-mode causes error on Windows
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 23:02:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pnwkyzon.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3b8xztk.fsf@gmx.com> (message from Jordan Wilson on Mon, 08 Oct 2018 15:44:55 +0100)
> From: Jordan Wilson <jordan.t.wilson@gmx.com>
> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 15:44:55 +0100
>
> File error: "Opening output file", "Invalid argument", "c:/Users/Jordan/Emacs/.cache/docview-cache/ *mm*-012345"
>
> this leaves a buffer showing the file literally. If I rename that buffer
> to something not containing an asterisk, it displays fine when running
> "doc-view-mode". Windows apparently can't handle asterisks in
> directory/file names.
Windows doesn't allow '*' (and a few other characters) in any file
name, not just in directory name. Gnus should run the file name
through convert-standard-filename to get something that is guaranteed
to work on any filesystem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-08 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-08 14:44 bug#32989: 26.1; Opening PDF attachments in Gnus with doc-view-mode causes error on Windows Jordan Wilson
2018-10-08 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-10-10 10:45 ` Jordan Wilson
2018-10-28 22:57 ` Jordan Wilson
2018-11-03 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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