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"Double Click" to open a file doesn't work in C:\Documents and Settings\user_name in Windows XP.

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From: "Paley, Robert M (IS)" <robert.paley <at> ngc.com>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: "Double Click" to open a file doesn't work in C:\Documents and Settings\user_name in Windows XP.
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 13:32:47 -0500

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Hello, When i try to "double click" to open the following text file in
Windows Explorer:

C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\mytxt.txt

Emacs tries to open the file:

C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Settings\user_name\mytxt.txt

which can't be found. Can you provide any help?

Regards
r

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From: "Paley, Robert M (IS)" <robert.paley <at> ngc.com>
To: <3265 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Additional debug information supplied by emacs.
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 11:13:17 -0500

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In GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-09-06 on SOFT-MJASON
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  cua-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> 
<send-emacs-bug-report>

Recent messages:
("C:\\Program Files\\emacs\\emacs-22.3\\bin\\emacs.exe" "C:\\Documents"
"and" "Settings\\s162159\\dss_05132009_090245.log")
Loading encoded-kb...done
Loading paren...done
Loading cua-base...done
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
(New file) [2 times]
Use M-x make-directory RET RET to create the directory and its parents
Loading emacsbug...
Loading regexp-opt...done
Loading emacsbug...done

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Message #15 received at 3265-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: "Paley, Robert M \(IS\)" <robert.paley <at> ngc.com>,
        3265-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3265: "Double Click" to open a file doesn't work in	C:\Documents
 and Settings\user_name in Windows XP.
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 16:53:40 +0800

Paley, Robert M (IS) wrote:
>
> Hello, When i try to "double click" to open the following text file in 
> Windows Explorer:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\mytxt.txt
>
> Emacs tries to open the file:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Settings\user_name\mytxt.txt
>
> which can't be found. Can you provide any help?
>

This is a problem of missing quotes from the file associations you have 
configured in Windows.  The default install does not configure any file 
associations, so you must have configured this manually, or using a 
third party installer.  If you did it manually, look for a %1 argument 
where you configured it, and change it to "%1". Otherwise submit a bug 
report to whoever provided the installer.

Message #16 received at 3265-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Paley, Robert M (IS)" <robert.paley <at> ngc.com>
To: "Jason Rumney" <jasonr <at> gnu.org>, <3265-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#3265: "Double Click" to open a file doesn't work in	C:\Documents and Settings\user_name in Windows XP.
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:17:46 -0500

Thanks for your help. Please close the Bug.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Rumney [mailto:jasonrumney <at> gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jason
Rumney
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:54 AM
To: Paley, Robert M (IS); 3265-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3265: "Double Click" to open a file doesn't work in
C:\Documents and Settings\user_name in Windows XP.

Paley, Robert M (IS) wrote:
>
> Hello, When i try to "double click" to open the following text file in

> Windows Explorer:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\mytxt.txt
>
> Emacs tries to open the file:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Settings\user_name\mytxt.txt
>
> which can't be found. Can you provide any help?
>

This is a problem of missing quotes from the file associations you have 
configured in Windows.  The default install does not configure any file 
associations, so you must have configured this manually, or using a 
third party installer.  If you did it manually, look for a %1 argument 
where you configured it, and change it to "%1". Otherwise submit a bug 
report to whoever provided the installer.

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