"Michael D. Crawford" writes:
> Is there a good web page somewhere that will tell a newbie how to
> get around in the shell and instruct him on the basic things he
> might want to do in it?
I maintain a set of pages for introducing programming students to Unix
at: http://www.cs.odu.edu/~cs252/u
When running the CygWin port of emacs, I frequently see failures in
the auto-save mechanism.
The problem occurs when editing a buffer whose name includes
characters that are acceptable in Unix file names but not in Windows
file names. For example, in replying to a message in VM, I may get
buffer
Since you say it occurs after modifying an ediff buffer, I suspect
it's related to a problem that has annoyed me for some time.
ediff is one of several emacs packages that produces buffers that
1) aren't associated with an existing file, and
2) are given names containing characters that cann
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