cannot attach files with + in their names

[mere user]

summary says it all: when trying to attach a file with a + in its name, vm complains that no such file exists. when I quote the + as \+ within the file name, attaching works fine

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

Eli, can you try this again? I just tried attaching "INBOX+" and it worked fine. -- Uday

[mere user (emacs-user)]

hello Uday, so INBOX+ works for me too, but a file named assistant+authorization03_09.pdf still leads to the error.  best, E

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> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 22:23:37 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 374170] Re: cannot attach files with + in their names
>
> can you try this again? I just tried attaching "INBOX+" and it
> worked fine. -- Uday

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[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

Eli, I set this bug report to confirmed last month, but now, it seems to work ok with the latest revision in the 8.1.x branch. I used the exact file name that you mentioned. Maybe this was a bug in Windows that got fixed. If the error is still present, please let me know.

Cheers,
Uday

[mere user (emacs-user)]

I can still see a problem there, here is the traceback. what other information can I provide? this is using the bzr version as of now... I wonder if it is (again...) because of one of the rfaddons I am using. there is the one that allows me to attach several files from a given directory using regexp. are you using this? let me know if I should try to remember what that option was and eliminate it. E
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "No matching files!") signal(error ("No matching files!")) error("No matching files!") vm-mime-attach-files-in-directory("~/Desktop/" "Agenda-for-visiting+student.pdf") call-interactively(vm-mime-attach-files-in-directory nil nil)

> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:29:41 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 374170] Re: cannot attach files with + in their names
>
> Eli, I set this bug report to confirmed last month, but now, it seems to
> work ok with the latest revision in the 8.1.x branch. I used the exact
> file name that you mentioned. Maybe this was a bug in Windows that got
> fixed. If the error is still present, please let me know.
>
> Cheers,
> Uday
>
>
> ** Changed in: vm
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
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> cannot attach files with + in their names
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> Bug description:
> summary says it all: when trying to attach a file with a + in its name, vm complains that no such file exists. when I quote the + as \+ within the file name, attaching works fine
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[mere user (emacs-user)]

Hi Uday, this problem occurs for me now only when I use the attach-save-files feature from rfaddons:
(require 'vm-rfaddons)(vm-rfaddons-infect-vm 0.1 '(attach-save-files open-line))
hope this helps, best, E

> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:29:41 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 374170] Re: cannot attach files with + in their names
>
> I set this bug report to confirmed last month, but now, it seems to
> work ok with the latest revision in the 8.1.x branch. I used the exact
> file name that you mentioned. Maybe this was a bug in Windows that got
> fixed. If the error is still present, please let me know.
>
> Cheers,
> Uday

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[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

mere user writes:

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "No matching files!") signal(error ("No matching files!")) error("No matching files!") vm-mime-attach-files-in-directory("~/Desktop/" "Agenda-for-visiting+student.pdf") call-interactively(vm-mime-attach-files-in-directory nil nil)

The doc string for vm-mime-attach-files-in-directory says that the
second argument is a regexp. So, the + is getting interpreted as a
regular expression operator. It should have still found a match. But
I leave it to you figure it out from here on.

Cheers,
Uday

PS Somehow, you managed to send this message with all the lines
squished into one!

[mere user (emacs-user)]

thanks...  I looked a bit at what + means as a regexp, and perhaps it shouldn't even find a match in this case.  filenames with ? also don't work as is, but I agree that this is not a bug given that this should be a regexp.  One can always just use \+ or \?.  So all is well, and I should have understood this myself.   I guess this is an advanced feature, and users should know what they are doing.  It's very a helpful one in any case.  cheers, E

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> From: u.s.reddy
>
> The doc string for vm-mime-attach-files-in-directory says that the
> second argument is a regexp. So, the + is getting interpreted as a
> regular expression operator. It should have still found a match. But
> I leave it to you figure it out from here on.

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