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bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wron
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:08:57 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> Are you really sure that
>> (read-file-name-internal "~" 'file-exists-p nil) returns
>> "~/dradams/" even though
>> (completion--file-name-table "~" 'file-exists-p nil)
>> returns "~dradams/"
> No, sorry; my bad. They both return "~dradams/".
OK, thanks, that makes a lot more sense. So, that looks correct
(i.e. not a bug). So, were you simply surprised at this behavior, or
did it actually lead to an actual problem somewhere?
>> > And there is no such directory ~dradams either.
>> Actually, there should be (in the same sense that there is a directory
>> named ~, i.e. it's a shorthand expanded by Emacs, more specifically by
>> `expand-file-name').
>> 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.
It's done so under posix "for ever".
> 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. This is an Emacs-only convention. Nothing wrong with that,
> obviously.)
Right, I'll let Windows users figure out whether it's useful or not.
Stefan
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, (continued)
- 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, 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 <=
- 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