From: Joost Diepenmaat <joost@zeekat.nl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873ak6pjga.fsf@zeekat.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 0b711200-19fd-40c8-a9f4-8b3daa0df6d4@w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com
ChristopherL <clusardi2k@aol.com> writes:
> On Sep 11, 11:48 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> 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/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-11 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-10 15:48 On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of Lines ChristopherL
2008-09-10 21:21 ` David Kastrup
2008-09-10 23:25 ` Chris Giroir
2008-09-11 11:00 ` Bernardo Bacic
[not found] ` <mailman.19001.1221131089.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-11 15:09 ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 15:33 ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 15:37 ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 15:42 ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 16:10 ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 18:06 ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 18:18 ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 18:28 ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 18:41 ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 18:54 ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 19:19 ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 19:28 ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 19:31 ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-28 2:06 ` David Combs
2008-09-29 8:47 ` Ada (was:On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of Lines) Anders Wirzenius
2008-09-11 15:33 ` Can't find .emacs file on Windows (was: Re: On " Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 18:48 ` On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of Lines Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.19046.1221158942.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-11 19:16 ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 19:32 ` Joost Diepenmaat [this message]
2008-09-11 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
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