From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Heinz Rommerskirchen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: find-file and filename containing '~' Date: 18 Nov 2005 09:22:36 +0100 Organization: Siemens Business Services Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132302975 6719 80.91.229.2 (18 Nov 2005 08:36:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:36:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 18 09:36:05 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ed1hk-00036i-Jt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:34:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ed1gd-0003oU-5P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 03:33:35 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news0.de.colt.net!newsfeed1.sbs.de!news.mch.sbs.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: mhhb0zkc.ww200.siemens.net Original-X-Trace: news.mch.sbs.de 1132302156 3963 139.21.44.131 (18 Nov 2005 08:22:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@siemens.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:22:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135540 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:31136 Archived-At: After a download with wget I got the file ~/tmp/itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002654.html on my hard disk. Trying to open this with find-file I didn't succeed because of the '~' in the middle of the name. No way of escaping I cold think of worked. I tried escaping with \ and C-Q, quoting with ' and " and, as described in the info-file, /: in front of the whole filename and inserted in the filename in front of the offending ~myl. Only by using dired I could get at the file. emacs -q --no-site-file didn't help either. Is this my stupidity, a bug/missing feature in emacs, or a missing description in the info file? This is with "GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) of 2003-03-28 on buffy", running under "Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4)" -- Regards Heinz