From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "rgb" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem using with-temp-file Date: 8 Feb 2007 06:09:44 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1170943783.942640.14840@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> References: <1170863538.259548.305890@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1170867163.601581.206430@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1170871508.908148.287000@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <1170872955.155482.123790@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1170930615.412740.134390@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170945622 13305 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2007 14:40:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:40:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 08 15:40:19 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HFARe-0005DB-T9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:40:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFARe-00057x-GV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:40:18 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 168.208.215.221 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1170943789 4042 127.0.0.1 (8 Feb 2007 14:09:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:09:49 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1170930615.412740.134390@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=168.208.215.221; posting-account=C7LM4w0AAAD23IRuMuUUJVCLQTuHhTK8 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145356 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40962 Archived-At: > > After noticing that this > > (with-temp-file "Test.txt" (insert "More testing")) > > worked fine. > > I realized wherein the problem lies > > > Debugger entered--entering a function: > > * write-region(1 2943 "~/Data-2007-02-07-07:17.txt" nil 0) > > > The empty file's name is "Data-2007-02-07-07" not > > "Data-2007-02-07-07:17.txt" > > write-region must be mishandling an error of some kind. > > Looks like your Emacs is mistaking the ":" in the filename for the end > of the filename. > On MS Windows with GNU Emacs 21.3 this doesn't happen to me, the above > works fine. I've been using 22.0.x for years and really don't know what I'd do without it. So many things I take for granted wern't available in 21.3 > > This could be a bug in filename handling in Emacs, or in the C library > of the platform it is using.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - It's beyond me to tell if the name should have been checked by lisp code (it wasn't) or the problem is within the C code of write-region so a general bug report was made. I can't help but be curious what 'works fine' means since : is supposedly illegal in MS filenames. Do you get a file with : in the name =E0 la .emacs or is the : missing but the contents still good or do you get an error...