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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 23743@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23743: 24.5; Opening output file: invalid argument, .../foo-<-4-n.el
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:35:54 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7736d91-7792-4271-9568-21ca8f5743b4@default> (raw)

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?  If so, and if that is
"normal", then the user should get a much better error message than
this.

(Same problem in the latest Emacs 25 build I have.)



In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2015-04-11 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/usr --host=i686-pc-mingw32'





             reply	other threads:[~2016-06-10 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-10 17:35 Drew Adams [this message]
2016-06-10 19:04 ` bug#23743: 24.5; Opening output file: invalid argument, .../foo-<-4-n.el Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-21  3:15   ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-21 12:48     ` Eli Zaretskii

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