From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Diepenmaat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of Lines Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:32:21 +0200 Organization: Zeekat Softwareonwikkeling Message-ID: <873ak6pjga.fsf@zeekat.nl> References: <2d7b8712-75b6-43ee-8681-80621dee9e77@x16g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <0b711200-19fd-40c8-a9f4-8b3daa0df6d4@w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221162703 14367 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2008 19:51:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:51:43 +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 Sep 11 21:52:38 2008 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 1KdsB0-0005sC-3T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:50:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41605 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kds9z-0007p7-LK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:48:59 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!transit4.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABgAAAAwBAMAAAD5pqeQAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAABhQTFRF URgKoyIAmTMXqF5KuYl7y6ui4NDM+/r4zJNdmwAAAAFiS0dEAIgFHUgAAAAJcEhZcwAACxMAAAsT AQCanBgAAAAHdElNRQfXDBIUAgGiEa2aAAABYUlEQVQoz02SvXaDMAyF3aHdZegD2PxkJhQ8J4R6 juGUuZDUe43R61eGJA0D8B1dXV0LGCJaDDePyOjZBtT9MgSYbIu+UpNl2A+/ukPXfNUku2ROdWhM 99myqzWX3Czp8dhY1n+MfWau+X4fZGNZpecuSwpFMHOZnpskFppgEaksGs5lFoYeYilOEMkjzcGC CzjxJJoowZIAQMPhfdYEecGhBFCOwO9GKkFkXZDtfIAax2C9wwKAWzwFyPGwQrXCIkimbzAHeFtl Ts0vJHvFkRI01ssVwpyMAoHkGmfFqL+TEmSNXjHMXeiHZAjZqjOsVxxSV8UG3Fi2ZGID2Fs2t7d3 6mLTdIdUM+PuECvW/T6gfobnSqTY+DDgmrnmATSnfMiQrTvcDOikyT1OWHxZPIF8As8P/waOjzdn IGt+vRVgYD7CrakFTSfFbwAB0Y+ghWj0IjP0Scz6I2E3zIlFb/8AfR6DwKVgwNYAAAAASUVORK5C YII= Cancel-Lock: sha1:Xz8MI7coou6nZ06lU7rpDAdL8I4= Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.126.3.69 Original-X-Trace: 1221161569 news.xs4all.nl 188 [::ffff:80.126.3.69]:36118 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162108 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:57451 Archived-At: ChristopherL writes: > On Sep 11, 11:48 am, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> When did you last try a file name that begins with a dot?  This >> limitation was on DOS; on Windows, it's long gone.  Try it. > > I just tried it. I can not create a folder or a text file with a > leading dot character. Well, you can, but IIRC not from the "windows desktop". It's definitely possible to create a .emacs file from emacs, for example, but most programs that let you type a filename directly will allow it. -- Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/