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Date: | Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:20:59 +0300 (EET DST) |
From: | Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi> |
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To: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org> |
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Subject: | Re: Emacs oddity with TMPDIR |
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On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:36:00 +0300 (EET DST) > > From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi> > > > > On my machine, I have TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP all set to e: (my ram drive) > > Why not set them to e:/ or e:\ ? I did so after I noticed that Emacs doesn't like plain e: (BTW, this is completely undocumented in the Emacs manual). > I'm not sure it's Emacs's fault: "e:" is a bad value for a temporary > directory, since the place it points to will change with the cwd on > drive E. Emacs needs a fixed place for TMPDIR, so it could relate to > it from any buffer and still find the files. The why doesn't Emacs add a slash to the string? DJGPP's tmpnam does so and it seems quite sensible to me. -- Esa Peuha student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/
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