From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org,
cyd@stupidchicken.com, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:57:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JTb1Y-0007oW-U8@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4pby141g.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:41:20 -0500)
> Isn't that sort of dangerous? If Emacs only uses characters which are
> _garanteed_ to work on any no matter how stupid, that would seem to
> dramatically increase the chances of a clash with a real filename...
A good reason to save those non-file-buffers in a separate directory.
There are disadvantages to that.
If that separate directory is under the user's home dir, other people
who can edit the same file will have trouble finding it.
It could be under the same directory as the file being edited,
but that involves creating a directory for this under each directory
where you edit files.
It is a good option to offer, but I don't think it should be the default.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-25 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-23 22:00 [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem Chong Yidong
2008-02-23 22:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-23 22:30 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-23 22:33 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-24 4:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-24 14:36 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-24 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-24 15:44 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-24 16:01 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-24 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-24 20:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-25 10:57 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2008-02-25 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-26 12:36 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-24 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-24 23:04 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-24 23:44 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-25 19:01 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-25 23:58 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-26 1:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-26 3:41 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-26 4:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-26 9:07 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-26 9:39 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-26 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-24 22:30 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-24 15:23 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-24 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-25 10:57 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-25 20:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-25 20:52 ` Andreas Schwab
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