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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: flycheck orgmode on windows invalid output file name
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2016 18:25:31 +0300
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> From: Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2016 12:45:45 +0200
> 
> Error while checking syntax automatically: (file-error "Opening output file" "Invalid argument" "c:/Users/guivh/emacs-guivho/.flycheck_emacs-guivho.org[*Org Src emacs-guivho.org[ emacs-lisp ]*]")
> 
> I checked the windows only issues but did not see something similar.
> 
> Apparently flycheck has a problem with the fact that the buffer does not
> correspond to a physical file.

No, I think the problem is that flycheck assumes it can create a file
whose name includes '*', which is false on Windows.

> I hope there is a known or suggested workaround...

If I'm right, the only solution is to modify flycheck so that it runs
the file name through convert-standard-filename.