Re: report-emacs-bug not working on cygwin: reporting again

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "emacs user" <address@hidden>
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> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:48:57 -0400
> 
> using latest gnu emacs from cvs (22.0.50) and latest cygwin,
> emacs -q --no-site-file
> M-x report-emacs-bug
> 
> results in this error and traceback:
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Opening output file" "no such 
> file or directory" "/home/eli/#*mail*#1160WPf#")

Thank you for your report.

I need your help in finding a good solution for this.  Previously,
when you reported this bug about 3 weeks ago, I wrote in response:

    Does Cygwin have a non-trivial definition of convert-standard-filename?
    (If not, it needs one, but I'm not sure where to put it.  Any
    suggestions?)

    This fragment from files.el:make-auto-save-file-name:

                ;; Make sure auto-save file names don't contain characters
                ;; invalid for the underlying filesystem.
                (if (and (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt))
                         ;; Don't modify remote (ange-ftp) filenames
                         (not (string-match "^/address@hidden:" result)))
                    (convert-standard-filename result)

    makes sure that invalid auto-save file names are never created on
    DOS/Windows, but it doesn't catch Cygwin.

I didn't get any replies.  Could you please answer these questions
now?

Thanks in advance.