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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:54:13 +0200
> From: Christian Gudrian <address@hidden>

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

> >I don't have the Cygwin port installed, but I'm almost sure that the
> >problem happens because this file name is invalid on Windows (the `*'
> >character is not allowed).
> >  
> >
> That's what I was thinking about as well.  However, David Kastrup 
> pointed out, that the buffer is not saved to disk, so invalid file names 
> should not affect the creation of the buffer itself.

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, and at that time it does hit the disk with the invalid name.

> >This assumes that Cygwin's definition of convert-standard-filename
> >deals with that problem; I had no easy way of checking that, sorry.
> >
> Can you give me a quick example how I could check out Cygwin's 
> implementation of convert-standard-filename?

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.