Re: [Cygwin] Composing mail does not work with auto-saving turned on

[Christian Gudrian]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> [Please keep emacs-pretest-bug on the CC list.]

Sure.  Sorry for any inconvenience.

> I didn't see David's message, but I believe the message is displayed
> when Emacs tries to create or stat an auto-save file for the *mail*
> buffer,
>  
That's the difference.  The mail buffer does not have an associated 
file, so Emacs tries to create a temporary one.

> Type "C-h f convert-standard-filename RET" and Emacs will pop up a
> buffer telling, among other things, on which Lisp file that function
> is defined.  Click on the file's name and Emacs will display the
> function's definition from that Lisp file.
convert-standard-filename is still defined in files.el for the Cygwin 
environment and thus does nothing but merely returning the argument.

Christian