From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sanitizing file names?
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 05:27:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86h6amudpu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v7z3jmnl.fsf@librehacker.com> (message from Christopher Howard on Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:09:50 -0800)
> From: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:09:50 -0800
>
> Hi, does Emacs/Elisp have any kind of API to help with sanitizing file names for the underlying OS/file-system limitations? Some of my projects involve older Windows systems that won't allow various characters in the file name like question marks and colons.
Is convert-standard-filename what you want?
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2024-09-10 20:09 Sanitizing file names? Christopher Howard
2024-09-11 2:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-09-11 16:41 ` Christopher Howard
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