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bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wron
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:07:29 +0200 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:50:36 -0800
> Cc: 13033@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > What does C-x C-f ~dradams/.emacs RET do? It should open
> > your ~/.emacs file.
>
> It does. Now. But it does not in older releases.
Which older releases? ~username/.emacs works for me on Windows in all
releases since 21.4.
> surprisingly, that text is also there in Emacs 23, even though this behavior
> seems new - it is not even in 24.2 (for Windows).
What happens in Emacs 24.2 for you? Are you talking about
C-x C-f ~dradams/.emacs RET
or about
(read-file-name-internal "~" 'file-exists-p nil)
?
> > An initial `~USER/' expands to USER's home directory.
>
> That's OK for an Emacs convention. I just was not aware of it. (And for MS
> Windows itself there is still no association between HOME and the user login
> name, AFAIK.
Emacs on Windows supports ~USER only when USER is the current user.
This support always worked in Emacs on Windows. ~USER for any other
username doesn't work on Windows, and never did.
(HOME is not recognized by MS-Windows itself, but HOMEDRIVE and
HOMEPATH are, and they change for each user as you'd expect.)
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Drew Adams, 2012/11/29
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/11/29
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/29
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Drew Adams, 2012/11/29
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/30
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Drew Adams, 2012/11/30
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/30
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Drew Adams, 2012/11/30
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Drew Adams, 2012/11/30
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/30
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/30
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Drew Adams, 2012/11/30
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/30