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Re: DOS-style filename in emacs 21.1 mode-line
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: DOS-style filename in emacs 21.1 mode-line |
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Mon, 24 Mar 2003 06:28:34 +0200 |
> From: jpwoodruff@irisinternet.net (John Woodruff)
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: 23 Mar 2003 13:07:57 -0800
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> On one occasion only -- when I drag & drop a file onto the Icon of a
> not-started emacs -- the file name is written in the mode-line in the
> old DOS notation of all-caps with 8 chars.
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> Every other idiom for finding a file represents the name with full
> charset.
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> I am running the manufactured emacs from emacs-21.1-fullbin-i386 on
> windows 98.
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> Suggestion to resolve this very minor infelicity?
I don't think you can do anything, short of upgrading your OS. This
is a misfeature of Windows.
What program does the icon have in its "command" window?