From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, eliz@gnu.org,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:44:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47C2014A.4090702@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JTPtY-0001n7-Bu@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman wrote:
> That's indeed what we should do. If and when we ever get support for
> filesystem-knowledge in the code, we may revisit this choice, but for
> now, please someone change the code that auto-generates those filenames
> to avoid characters known to be problematic. Or better yet: to only
> use those chars expected to be always work.
>
> I think that changing from # to something else is a drastic change,
>
# is not the problem, at least for vfat and ntfs filesystems. The
problem that was reported was with the *s in #*scratch*#12345xyz#.
If we limit the change to non-file buffers (which seems reasonable,
since the default is to save the auto-save file in the same directory as
the file, and if there are invalid characters in the name of a newly
created buffer, the user will need to fix it before they can save
anyway), then there is already an escape mechanism in place to deal with
/ and \ characters. Extending that to also deal with other characters
does not seem too drastic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-24 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-23 22:00 [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem Chong Yidong
2008-02-23 22:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-23 22:30 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-23 22:33 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-24 4:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-24 14:36 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-24 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-24 15:44 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-24 16:01 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-24 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-24 20:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-25 10:57 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-25 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-26 12:36 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-24 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-24 23:04 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-24 23:44 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2008-02-25 19:01 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-25 23:58 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-26 1:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-26 3:41 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-26 4:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-26 9:07 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-26 9:39 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-26 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-24 22:30 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-24 15:23 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-24 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-25 10:57 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-25 20:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-25 20:52 ` Andreas Schwab
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