From: "Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>,
Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Problem with non-valid file names on w32
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:52:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0611300952n61414139p5a419d2391edb972@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0611300608n2d50696eu9b320b6903b71faa@mail.gmail.com>
> 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?
Most probably that shared resource would add more restrictions on file
names rather than adding possible characters, right? Or is the current
file name restrictions in Windows dependent on the file system type?
> > 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.
>
> That is a feature (if unintended). foo:bar is not an invalid name in
> Windows.
I agree. That might come handy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-30 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-30 13:10 Problem with non-valid file names on w32 Lennart Borgman
2006-11-30 14:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-30 15:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-12-01 20:55 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-11-30 17:52 ` Mathias Dahl [this message]
2006-11-30 19:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-12-01 10:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-01 11:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
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