Re: On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of Lines

[Joost Diepenmaat]

ChristopherL <clusardi2k@aol.com> writes:

> On Sep 11, 11:48 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
>> When did you last try a file name that begins with a dot?  This
>> limitation was on DOS; on Windows, it's long gone.  Try it.
>
> I just tried it. I can not create a folder or a text file with a
> leading dot character.

Well, you can, but IIRC not from the "windows desktop". It's definitely
possible to create a .emacs file from emacs, for example, but most
programs that let you type a filename directly will allow it.

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