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Subject: Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current
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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
>         emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:39:23 -0500
> 
> > Alternatively, we could limit the filenames we generate for autosaving the
> > scratch buffer (and any others like it) to use characters that are valid on
> > all the filesystems we know about.
> 
> That's indeed what we should do.

I suspect that Unix users will hate us for that.