From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel 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 Message-ID: References: <877igvl4dn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <47C180F9.2060901@gnu.org> <87r6f2cqap.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203937300 13780 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2008 11:01:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:01:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, miles@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 25 12:02:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JTb5l-0007c6-7z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:01:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTb5F-0003he-Kr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:01:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTb1e-0000zs-Rw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:57:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTb1a-0000xU-Of for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:57:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTb1a-0000xG-BT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:57:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JTb1a-0006oA-3K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:57:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JTb1Y-0007oW-U8; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:57:32 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:41:20 -0500) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:90383 Archived-At: > 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.