On 17.09.2010 20:12, Daniel Barclay wrote:
Does anyone recall a mention of what in CygWin (or possibly Emacs) creates
files with a simple name of "NUL"?
I also use native Emacs and after some operation I got file with name NUL.
I have a lot NUL files in many dirs, which can be removed only from Cygwin:
$ rm NUL
I don't fully debug but think this come from 'null-device' variable
(which has 'NUL' value by default).
To friend native GNU Emacs with Cygwin (and stop creating NUL) I use:
(when (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
(setq shell-file-name "bash")
;; Workaround for Cygwin shell, when set 'CYGWIN=noglob'. By default
'shell-quote-argument'
;; quoted by double '\' chars this cause failure.
(defun shell-quote-argument (argument)
(concat "'" argument "'")
)
;; Workaround for Cygwin when 'shell-file-name' is 'bash'.
(setq null-device "/dev/null")
)
--
Happy hacking!
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