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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 21.1 magic filename quoting
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:23:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jesn621nsg.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020410183606.C9045@nerafo.glue.umd.edu> (Andrew Arensburger's message of "Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:36:06 -0400")

Andrew Arensburger <arensb@Glue.umd.edu> writes:

|> 	Summary: Emacs refuses to read files in "/:".
|> 
|> 	If I'm reading "files.el" correctly, Emacs prepends "/:"
|> to filenames to indicate that magic has been performed on the
|> filename, and should not be performed again, then strips off the "/:"
|> before opening the file.
|> 	The problem is that under a standard AFS installation, /: is a
|> symbolic link to /afs/<cell-name> (/afs/glue.umd.edu, in our case).
|> Thus, when I try to edit "/:/a/b/c", Emacs tries to open "/a/b/c".

Have you tried using "/:/:/a/b/c" for the name?

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-11 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-10 22:36 Emacs 21.1 magic filename quoting Andrew Arensburger
2002-04-11 11:23 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2002-04-11 16:29   ` Andrew Arensburger
2002-04-11 19:42     ` Miles Bader
2002-04-12 19:49     ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-12 21:02       ` Andrew Arensburger
2002-04-15 18:31         ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-17 16:03           ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-17 17:14             ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-11 19:16   ` Andrew Arensburger

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