3:46 a.m.
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Dear Bug Team!
On Windows XP, I'm unable to open files in common directories like
"~/My Documents". If I had to guess, the problem is with filenames
that contain spaces. This seems like pretty basic stuff however
I just installed XEmacs and I don't have a .xemacs file.
Hope there's an easy answer!
- Hans (Hans.Muller(a)sun.com <mailto:Hans.Muller＠sun.com>)
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System Info to help track down your bug:
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OS version:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
OS: Windows_NT
XEmacs 21.4.19 "Constant Variable" configured for `i586-pc-win32'.
Building XEmacs in
"e:\\acs\\software\\XEmacsWindowsKit\\xemacs-21.4-2006-01-28\\nt".
Using compiler "cl -nologo -W3 -O2 -G5 -MD".
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Recent messages (most recent first):
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Loading xemacsbug...done
Loading xemacsbug...
Directory c:\Documents and Settings\hans\My Documents\ write-protected
File not found and directory write-protected
Making completion list...
Making completion list...
Quit
Making completion list...
No completions of C:\>c:\pro
Completing file name...
c:\
Wrote c:\ImageInfo.java
(New file)
File not found and directory write-protected
Making completion list...
Making completion list...
Quit
Quit
Quit
Making completion list...
5:30 a.m.
>>>> "Hans" == Hans Muller
<Hans.Muller(a)Sun.COM> writes:
Hans> On Windows XP, I'm unable to open files in common
Hans> directories like "~/My Documents". If I had to guess, the
Hans> problem is with filenames that contain spaces.
How are you opening them? With C-x C-f, or with the Open File Dialog?
Where exactly do you run into a problem?
With C-x C-f, as far as I know quoting the space with C-q should allow
you to enter it in the minibuffer, and that should be sufficient to
open the file. (Works for me on Linux for a file name.) Also, if "My
Documents" is the only file or directory whose name begins with "My",
then M y TAB will complete correctly, and you can open it that way.
(Works for me on Linux for a file name.)
With the Open File dialog, just click on the file or directory name.
(Works for me on Linux for a file name.)
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4:14 p.m.
Thanks for the response. I left for vacation shortly after sending the
problem
report so this is a rather belated reply:
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>>>> "Hans" == Hans Muller
<Hans.Muller(a)Sun.COM> writes:
>>>>>
Hans> On Windows XP, I'm unable to open files in common
Hans> directories like "~/My Documents". If I had to guess, the
Hans> problem is with filenames that contain spaces.
How are you opening them? With C-x C-f, or with the Open File Dialog?
Where exactly do you run into a problem?
Either approach for opening a file fails. I've found that opening
"~/My
Documents" in dired, and
then creating a new subdirectory (with "+") and then opening a files in
the subdir, does work.
Maybe the problem (on XP) has to do with paths whose directory component
ends with a name that contains a space?
With C-x C-f, as far as I know quoting the space with C-q should
allow
you to enter it in the minibuffer, and that should be sufficient to
open the file. (Works for me on Linux for a file name.)
Doesn't work on XP.
Result is: "File not found and directory write
protected".
Also, if "My
Documents" is the only file or directory whose name begins with "My",
then M y TAB will complete correctly, and you can open it that way.
(Works for me on Linux for a file name.)
Tab completion definitely works, however the result is always the same:
"File not found and
directory write protected".
With the Open File dialog, just click on the file or directory name.
(Works for me on Linux for a file name.)
I hadn't tried that, however it doesn't work. Results are the same.
- Hans
5:26 p.m.
On 7/13/06, Hans Muller <Hans.Muller(a)sun.com> wrote:
Thanks for the response. I left for vacation shortly after sending the
problem
report so this is a rather belated reply:
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>>>>> "Hans" == Hans Muller <Hans.Muller(a)Sun.COM>
writes:
>>>>>>
>
> Hans> On Windows XP, I'm unable to open files in common
> Hans> directories like "~/My Documents". If I had to guess, the
> Hans> problem is with filenames that contain spaces.
>
> How are you opening them? With C-x C-f, or with the Open File Dialog?
> Where exactly do you run into a problem?
>
Either approach for opening a file fails. I've found that opening "~/My
Documents" in dired, and
then creating a new subdirectory (with "+") and then opening a files in
the subdir, does work.
Maybe the problem (on XP) has to do with paths whose directory component
ends with a name that contains a space?
> With C-x C-f, as far as I know quoting the space with C-q should allow
> you to enter it in the minibuffer, and that should be sufficient to
> open the file. (Works for me on Linux for a file name.)
Doesn't work on XP. Result is: "File not found and directory write
protected".
This Just Works For Me with either a cygwin or native build with a
recent 21.4.19 build. Is your HOME environment variable set
explicitly? Mine is set to e:/acs, but I bet in your case, ~ expands
to a name with a space in it (probably c:\Documents and
Settings\hans). My guess is that expanding the home directory needs
to be quoted somehow. What does this evaluate to:
(getenv "HOME")
Does this work:
C-x C-f c:\Documents and Settings\hans\My Documents\foo.txt
Another experiment I'd like you to try, please, is to:
(setq debug-on-error t)
C-x C-f ~/My Documents/foo.txt
and please send the backtrace to xemacs-beta.
Thanks,
Vin
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4:54 a.m.
Sorry to be glacial. It's been a busy summer :-). Here's the feedback
you asked for ...
Vin Shelton wrote:
On 7/13/06, Hans Muller <Hans.Muller(a)sun.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the response. I left for vacation shortly after sending the
> problem
> report so this is a rather belated reply:
>
> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>>> "Hans" == Hans Muller <Hans.Muller(a)Sun.COM>
writes:
> >>>>>>
> >
> > Hans> On Windows XP, I'm unable to open files in common
> > Hans> directories like "~/My Documents". If I had to guess,
the
> > Hans> problem is with filenames that contain spaces.
> >
> > How are you opening them? With C-x C-f, or with the Open File Dialog?
> > Where exactly do you run into a problem?
> >
> Either approach for opening a file fails. I've found that opening "~/My
> Documents" in dired, and
> then creating a new subdirectory (with "+") and then opening a files in
> the subdir, does work.
> Maybe the problem (on XP) has to do with paths whose directory component
> ends with a name that contains a space?
> > With C-x C-f, as far as I know quoting the space with C-q should allow
> > you to enter it in the minibuffer, and that should be sufficient to
> > open the file. (Works for me on Linux for a file name.)
> Doesn't work on XP. Result is: "File not found and directory write
> protected".
This Just Works For Me with either a cygwin or native build with a
recent 21.4.19 build. Is your HOME environment variable set
explicitly?
It's not set at all. I started with a pretty vanilla XP
installation,
downloaded
and installed XEmacs, and didn't create any .foo config files.
Mine is set to e:/acs, but I bet in your case, ~ expands
to a name with a space in it (probably c:\Documents and
Settings\hans). My guess is that expanding the home directory needs
to be quoted somehow. What does this evaluate to:
(getenv "HOME")
nil
Does this work:
C-x C-f c:\Documents and Settings\hans\My Documents\foo.txt
No; that just
generates "file not found and directory write protected".
Another experiment I'd like you to try, please, is to:
(setq debug-on-error t)
C-x C-f ~/My Documents/foo.txt
and please send the backtrace to xemacs-beta.
That doesn't generate a
backtrace. Emacs just creates a read-only
buffer called
foo.txt that points to the specified path. Same for this:
(setq debug-on-error t)
t
(find-file " ~/My Documents/foo.txt")
#<buffer "foo.txt">
I also get the same results for:
(find-file "c:\\Documents and Settings\\hans\\My Documents\\foo.txt") and
(find-file "c:/Documents and Settings/hans/My Documents/foo.txt")
If a setenv HOME to the ...\hans\My Documents path, then C-x C-f does work.
I've create a ~/.xemacs file that contains the following, and now all seems
copacetic:
(setenv "HOME" "c:\\Documents and Settings\\hans\\My Documents")
(message (concat "Loading " (getenv HOME) "\\.xemacs
<file://%5C%5C.xemacs>"))
I've been running XEmacs 21.4 (April 2001) on an XP machine for a year
or two
without having set the HOME env variable and did not see the problem
outlined
here.
Thanks for the help with this; I'm on the XEmacs road again.
- Hans
Thanks,
Vin
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