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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of	Lines
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:06:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uod2uphv4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b711200-19fd-40c8-a9f4-8b3daa0df6d4@w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com>

> From: ChristopherL <clusardi2k@aol.com>
> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:16:27 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> On Sep 11, 11:48 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > When did you last try a file name that begins with a dot?  This
> > limitation was on DOS; on Windows, it's long gone.  Try it.
> 
> I just tried it. I can not create a folder or a text file with a
> leading dot character.

You tried with Windows Explorer, no doubt, since this is about the
only program left that has this limitation.  Try this in Emacs, and
you will see it will work.  Even from a command prompt it will work:

  C:\> echo foo > .file-with-a-leading-dot





      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-11 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-10 15:48 On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of Lines ChristopherL
2008-09-10 21:21 ` David Kastrup
2008-09-10 23:25   ` Chris Giroir
2008-09-11 11:00 ` Bernardo Bacic
     [not found] ` <mailman.19001.1221131089.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-11 15:09   ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 15:33     ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 15:37       ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 15:42         ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 16:10           ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 18:06             ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 18:18               ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 18:28                 ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 18:41                   ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 18:54                     ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 19:19                       ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 19:28                         ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 19:31                           ` Charles Sebold
2008-09-28  2:06                         ` David Combs
2008-09-29  8:47                           ` Ada (was:On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of Lines) Anders Wirzenius
2008-09-11 15:33     ` Can't find .emacs file on Windows (was: Re: On " Charles Sebold
2008-09-11 18:48     ` On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of Lines Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.19046.1221158942.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-11 19:16       ` ChristopherL
2008-09-11 19:32         ` Joost Diepenmaat
2008-09-11 20:06         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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