From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc? Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:31:32 +0200 Message-ID: References: <9e31b345-4cec-4ea6-8d63-d66b8355da06@p10g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219581125 28208 80.91.229.12 (24 Aug 2008 12:32:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:32:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Xah Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 24 14:32:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KXEm7-0006qD-KT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:32:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34057 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KXEl9-0002nf-Kx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:31:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KXEkp-0002nZ-2X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:31:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KXEko-0002nL-K0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:31:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46981 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KXEko-0002nI-Fl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:31:34 -0400 Original-Received: from dd18200.kasserver.com ([85.13.138.168]:38449) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KXEko-0000V0-7f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:31:34 -0400 Original-Received: from thursday (kobz-590f1b56.pool.einsundeins.de [89.15.27.86]) by dd18200.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7D41832880E; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:31:36 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <9e31b345-4cec-4ea6-8d63-d66b8355da06@p10g2000prf.googlegroups.com> (Xah's message of "Sat\, 23 Aug 2008 15\:21\:21 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2.50 (darwin) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56937 Archived-At: Xah wrote: > Unix is the worst, they pretty much just allow > alphanumerics and not even space. If you have anything like =E2=80=9C,=3D= (); > \'"~&-=E2=80=9D etc, you can expect most shell tools to erase you disk) Actually unix systems allow pretty much every character except / and the null character. Of course most shells require proper quoting of characters /they/ assign a special meaning to, as do programming languages. But that holds true for every OS and doesn't apply to the GUI at all. regards, Nikolaj Schumacher