From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii 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 23:06:39 +0300 Message-ID: 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=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221163650 18224 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2008 20:07:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:07:30 +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 22:08:19 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 1KdsSV-0004ck-GM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:08:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39813 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KdsRU-0000OE-UI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:07:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KdsRB-0000O0-MH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:06:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KdsRB-0000No-4b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:06:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43981 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KdsRB-0000Nl-14 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:06:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout1.012.net.il ([84.95.2.1]:40764) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KdsRA-0005wT-Ov for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:06:44 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.226.149]) by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0K7100F03RWGPHL0@i-mtaout1.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:07:33 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <0b711200-19fd-40c8-a9f4-8b3daa0df6d4@w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:57452 Archived-At: > From: ChristopherL > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:16:27 -0700 (PDT) >=20 > On Sep 11, 11:48=A0am, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > When did you last try a file name that begins with a dot? =A0This > > limitation was on DOS; on Windows, it's long gone. =A0Try it. >=20 > I just tried it. I can not create a folder or a text file with a > leading dot character. You tried with Windows Explorer, no doubt, since this is about the only program left that has this limitation. Try this in Emacs, and you will see it will work. Even from a command prompt it will work: C:\> echo foo > .file-with-a-leading-dot