From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help,gmane.emacs.orgmode Subject: Re: flycheck orgmode on windows invalid output file name Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2016 18:25:31 +0300 Message-ID: <83ziqzu07o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86shwrkj6u.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465140353 6975 80.91.229.3 (5 Jun 2016 15:25:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 15:25:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 05 17:25:46 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b9Zvt-00054V-Va for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:25:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37547 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9Zvs-0005vY-UW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2016 11:25:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47525) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9ZvK-0005rB-4j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2016 11:25:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9ZvI-0001qZ-8h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2016 11:25:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56904) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9ZvB-0001lK-0J; Sun, 05 Jun 2016 11:25:01 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3358 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1b9Zv9-0005KA-5S; Sun, 05 Jun 2016 11:24:59 -0400 In-reply-to: <86shwrkj6u.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Guido Van Hoecke on Sun, 05 Jun 2016 12:45:45 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110316 gmane.emacs.orgmode:107581 Archived-At: > From: Guido Van Hoecke > Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2016 12:45:45 +0200 > > Error while checking syntax automatically: (file-error "Opening output file" "Invalid argument" "c:/Users/guivh/emacs-guivho/.flycheck_emacs-guivho.org[*Org Src emacs-guivho.org[ emacs-lisp ]*]") > > I checked the windows only issues but did not see something similar. > > Apparently flycheck has a problem with the fact that the buffer does not > correspond to a physical file. No, I think the problem is that flycheck assumes it can create a file whose name includes '*', which is false on Windows. > I hope there is a known or suggested workaround... If I'm right, the only solution is to modify flycheck so that it runs the file name through convert-standard-filename.