From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Emacs 21.1 magic filename quoting Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:23:59 +0200 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20020410183606.C9045@nerafo.glue.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018524484 26266 127.0.0.1 (11 Apr 2002 11:28:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:28:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16vckF-0006pX-00 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:28:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16vcjL-0001UR-00; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 07:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16vcgU-0001PT-00 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 07:24:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Charybdis.suse.de [213.95.15.201]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E42211E3EF; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:24:09 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: sykes.suse.de: schwab set sender to schwab@suse.de using -f Original-To: Andrew Arensburger X-Yow: Now, I think it would be GOOD to buy FIVE or SIX STUDEBAKERS and CRUISE for ARTIFICIAL FLAVORING!! In-Reply-To: <20020410183606.C9045@nerafo.glue.umd.edu> (Andrew Arensburger's message of "Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:36:06 -0400") Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.2.50 (ia64-suse-linux) Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:559 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:559 Andrew Arensburger 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/ (/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. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE GmbH, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."