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bug#23743: 24.5; Opening output file: invalid argument, .../foo-<-4-n.el
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#23743: 24.5; Opening output file: invalid argument, .../foo-<-4-n.el |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 22:04:23 +0300 |
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:35:54 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> emacs -Q
>
> C-x C-f foo-<-4-n.el
>
> Type some text in that file buffer.
>
> C-x C-s ; try to save it.
>
> Saving file d:/usr/drew/drews-lisp-20/foo-<-4-n.el...
> basic-save-buffer-2: Opening output file: invalid argument,
> d:/.../foo-<-4-n.el
>
> Apparently it doesn't like `<' in a file name?
Yes, Windows doesn't allow that.
> If so, and if that is "normal", then the user should get a much
> better error message than this.
That's the error that comes from the filesystem, Emacs doesn't know
any better.