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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problem using with-temp-file
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:38:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk5ysueul.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1170930615.412740.134390@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com

> 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.

IIRC this is a feature of your OS where the ":" is used for some special
file-handling thingy, maybe something like forks or some such.
It may depend on the specific version of w32 you're using, and/or on the
filesystem itself.


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-09  4:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-07 15:52 Problem using with-temp-file rgb
2007-02-07 16:52 ` Robert Thorpe
2007-02-07 18:05   ` rgb
2007-02-07 18:29     ` rgb
2007-02-08 10:30       ` Robert Thorpe
2007-02-08 14:09         ` rgb
2007-02-08 16:02           ` Robert Thorpe
2007-02-10  9:38             ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-02-09  4:38         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-02-09  9:02           ` Juanma Barranquero

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