From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: rms@gnu.org
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 10:57:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk5kt58sc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JTb1Y-0007oW-U8@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:57:32 -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.
What "file being edited"? I'm talking about "non-file-buffers".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-25 15:57 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
2008-02-25 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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