From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: font-locking mysteries Date: 28 Jun 2004 13:52:26 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <2k5cpnF1864nlU1@uni-berlin.de> <2k8e0kF18m7gbU1@uni-berlin.de> <2kaeccF19ig3vU1@uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088539000 28190 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 19:56:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:56:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 21:56:33 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfOiV-0001CZ-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:56:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfOkB-000114-Gn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:58:15 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 50 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de Yz7YzZYDqUQmCpw/QzeiKAdvnQd85r4qH+ShCtApsbKdy6FTs/ X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123980 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19340 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19340 Christian Gudrian writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > > > Ugh, what?!? > > Well, if I say M-x mail I get an error message saying > > `Opening output file: no such file or directory, > /home/Gudrian/#*mail*#1660Va0#' That is just the autosave file. It won't get created before the buffer. The buffer should appear just fine. If not, do M-: set-variable RET auto-save-default RET nil RET before doing your bug report. > Asterisks are no good in file names that are meant to be stored on > file systems by Microsoft... Which makes me wonder whether that would > work on *nix systems. Certainly. > > You should report that, whatever it is, as a bug. > > Let me guess: > > M-x report-emacs-bug > > which in turn will try to open a mail buffer, right? :) If you refuse to apply any proposed measure, you can't use the predefined bug reporting methods to report a problem with the predefined bug reporting methods. I should have thought that obvious. > > If you have a gnus session active and mail-user-agent set to > > gnus-user-agent, then the buffer file name might be different when > > calling mail. > > No, I'm sorry. Don't bother. I might dive into that some time > later. But it's not worth it at the moment. After all it's just a > minor font-locking problem I was originally dealing with. And it is a major bug reporting problem you are dealing with now. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum