GNU bug report logs - #13661
24.3.50; shell-command fails with w32-downcase-file-names

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: <rcopley <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 14:36:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 13661-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rcopley <at> gmail.com
Cc: 13661-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13661: 24.3.50;
	shell-command fails with w32-downcase-file-names
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:38:54 +0200

> From: <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 14:35:15 +0000
> 
> The `shell-command' function fails if `w32-downcase-file-names' is true.
> 
> 
> Recipe from -Q:
> M-: (setq SPC w32-downcase-file-names SPC t) RET
> 
> M-! dir <return>
> 
> 
> Result:
> (Shell command failed with error)
> shell-command-on-region: File exists: c:/users/buster/appdata/local/temp/emxxxxxx

Damn that w32-downcase-file-names option!  Why are people still using
it in the year 2013??

Thanks; fixed in revision 111711.
This bug report was last modified 12 years and 105 days ago.

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