From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem using with-temp-file Date: 8 Feb 2007 08:02:13 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1170950529.404734.302220@a34g2000cwb.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> <1170943783.942640.14840@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 1170952843 12237 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2007 16:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:40:43 +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 17:40:33 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 1HFCK1-0008I4-C1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:40:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFCK0-0007RS-TE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:40:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a34g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.210 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1170950540 5727 127.0.0.1 (8 Feb 2007 16:02:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:02:20 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1170943783.942640.14840@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF3ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a34g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.210; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145357 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:40965 Archived-At: On Feb 8, 2:09 pm, "rgb" wrote: > > 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 I made a policy long ago of never using CVS software that wasn't released. I'm considering making an exception for Emacs. > 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... Checking again I see that it doesn't work, it's just that Emacs 21 does not raise an exception to report the error!