From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Problem with non-valid file names on w32 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:55:32 +0100 Message-ID: <456EFEF4.3090005@student.lu.se> References: <456ED855.9070006@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164902203 18095 80.91.229.2 (30 Nov 2006 15:56:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 30 16:56:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpoGW-0001d7-LW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:56:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpoGW-00083X-4d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:56:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpoGC-0007yC-Hy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:55:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpoGA-0007uX-Kd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:55:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpoGA-0007uF-GJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:55:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.76.149.212] (helo=ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GpoG8-0005Pe-RU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:55:38 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:64967 helo=[192.168.123.121]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GpoG6-00061w-4V; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:55:35 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1GpoG6-00061w-4V. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1GpoG6-00061w-4V c3a63b047662b81cf876a85740b807d6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:63140 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero wrote: > On 11/30/06, Lennart Borgman wrote: > >> When you try to save the file Emacs will be noted about the problem and >> tell the user. So maybe it is not that catastrophic, but it is not >> pretty IMO. > > If you have shared resources, the rules governing file name validity > could be different in some mounted volumes. How do you plan to say > that to Emacs? Good point. I know little about possible mount points in w32. Can another volume be mounted say under c:/some/path/a/bit/down? >> It gets a bit worse if you have file names like >> "c:/some/path/d:hidden.txt". In this case Emacs will not complain when >> saving the file. Instead a hidden stream is created. ... > Why do you call it "awkward"? It's a feature, and that's its syntax. > CMD does not do a very good job of handling streams, but for example > in 4NT you can do: Yes, you are right. But it is a surprising feature.