RE: [h-e-w] EmacsW32 renames buffers with old Windows shortened filenames.

[Gayard, Leonel]

That solved it.

Thanks a lot.


Leonel Aguilar Gayard
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GFT Iberia Solutions
Sorocaba, São Paulo - Brazil



-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Hotchin [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Fri 22-May-09 00:44
To: Gayard, Leonel
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: RE: [h-e-w] EmacsW32 renames buffers with old Windows shortened 
filenames.
 
I suspect something like this might be the problem:
QUOTE
%L is long file names.  
  
%1 is long file names IF  
  
* Explorer can find the exe file (it does not look very hard)  
  
AND  
  
* The file header says it is Win 95 aware Win16 exe, or  
  
* It is a 32 bit program  
  
Else %1 will be a short name.  
  

ENDQUOTE
(http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:OZ4PxlXS9zUJ:www.eggheadcafe.com/forum
archives/Windows2000cmdpromptadmin/Sep2005/post23540199.asp+ftype+short+file
+name&cd=12&hl=en&ct=clnk)


So, this is probably not an EMACS problem, but rather a problem with the
file association, or with a helper problem used to invoke EMACS.

So, try replacing '%1' in 'ftype txtfile' with '%L'.

        Michael H.


 

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of
Gayard, Leonel
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 7:10 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: [h-e-w] EmacsW32 renames buffers with old Windows shortened
filenames.

I've just installed the patched version of EmacsW32 from
http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html

I find it very nice that .txt files are associated wth Emacs, so that when
you click on one, emacsclient opens it in the running instance of Emacs.

Problem is, for some reason, the buffer is renamed with the old-style
shortened file names, so, for example, the buffer with file
"activities-2008.txt" is renamed to "ACTIV~1.TXT", which I don't like.

How do I get EmacsW32 not to rename the buffer, and use the whole file name
as the buffer name instead ?

BTW: I've asked this same exact question on stackoverflow.com, but I guess
that this mailing list might yield better results. Anyway, feel free to post
your answer there as well, I'll gladly vote it up.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/892934/


Leonel Aguilar Gayard
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GFT Iberia Solutions
Sorocaba, São Paulo - Brazil