From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: rost@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 21.3.50 grep.el/executable.el problems
Date: 16 Feb 2004 15:16:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7jymdbqa.fsf-monnier+emacs/devel@asado.iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6408-Mon16Feb2004215712+0200-eliz@elta.co.il>
> In my experience, on a Windows system this problem is pretty frequent,
> and when it happens, the error message that comes from the non-Posix
> `find' is so cryptic that even occasional gurus get confused.
Is it possible for Emacs to recognize this cryptic thing?
Maybe we could give a meaningful message after running `find' rather
than before.
Is MS-find the only real source of problem? If so, is its absolute file
name always the same?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-16 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-16 14:35 Emacs 21.3.50 grep.el/executable.el problems Markus Rost
2004-02-16 15:17 ` Ehud Karni
2004-02-16 16:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-16 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-16 20:16 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2004-02-16 20:31 ` Jason Rumney
2004-02-16 21:10 ` Markus Rost
2004-02-17 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-18 8:39 ` Richard Stallman
2004-02-18 20:55 ` Markus Rost
2004-02-17 17:27 ` Richard Stallman
2004-02-16 16:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-02-16 16:23 ` Markus Rost
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-13 6:32 Emacs 21.3.50 on cygwin bootstrap failed. (Jason Rumney) Steven Wu
2004-02-14 15:04 ` Emacs 21.3.50 grep.el/executable.el problems Ehud Karni
2004-02-15 11:43 ` Ehud Karni
2004-02-15 12:59 ` Piet van Oostrum
2004-02-15 13:20 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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