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ventaA secon technical appeal. Apologies to those who don't give a toss about these things.
(I've tried a very brief google on this, but to no avail. I'm just asking in case anyone knows off-hand, otherwise I'll go back to ransacking the dustier corners of the web.)
Yetersday, I tried to open a non-existent file in emacs. This isn't usually a problem, it creates the file, and away you go (so long as the directory it's in exists).
However, I got an error message telling me that the directory ("My Documents") was read-only. Strange, I thought. My Documents, Properties, well so it was. Uncheck the box, apply, save, try again.
Nope, still read-only. My Documents, Properties, yup, it's read-only again.
How can I ask Windows XP to actually believe me that yes, I'd really like to create documents in that folder from time to time ? (I can create documents by clicking in the directory, and saying New -> Text document.) I'm fairly sure Windows XP let me create documents by opening them in emacs pre-Service Pack 2. Win 2K doesn't seem to have a problem with me doing it, either.
(I've tried a very brief google on this, but to no avail. I'm just asking in case anyone knows off-hand, otherwise I'll go back to ransacking the dustier corners of the web.)
Yetersday, I tried to open a non-existent file in emacs. This isn't usually a problem, it creates the file, and away you go (so long as the directory it's in exists).
However, I got an error message telling me that the directory ("My Documents") was read-only. Strange, I thought. My Documents, Properties, well so it was. Uncheck the box, apply, save, try again.
Nope, still read-only. My Documents, Properties, yup, it's read-only again.
How can I ask Windows XP to actually believe me that yes, I'd really like to create documents in that folder from time to time ? (I can create documents by clicking in the directory, and saying New -> Text document.) I'm fairly sure Windows XP let me create documents by opening them in emacs pre-Service Pack 2. Win 2K doesn't seem to have a problem with me doing it, either.
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Date: 2005-02-25 03:21 pm (UTC)As a command line, the main thing wrong with it is that the shell doesn't recognise "c:" as the root of the c drive (presumably because they'd have had to shoehorn a bunch of extra code on top of the Red Hat distros they use). So if you want tab completion, you have to use /cygdrive/c/, by which time you often almost might as well have typed the whole thing.
The default terminal doesn't have sensible clipboard controls, which sucks quite a lot, but presumably you can get graphical terminal windows that behave better. I know that you're exceedingly sensitive to this kind of thing, though, so to that extent it is still arse unless you can find a better terminal.
I've also not tried installing anything from source, so I don't know how that goes. GNU provide Windows binaries for most of their command line tools, so there's generally no need in my experience.