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bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wron
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:09:26 -0800 |
> > > 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.
I meant that what is new (what this bug report is about) is new. ;-)
That is, completion of `~' to `~dradams/', or of `~dr' to `~dradams/', or
`~dradams' to `~dradams/'.
> 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)
The latter. See above.
> > > 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.
Yes, that's what the doc says. But until now, Emacs did not support expansion
of ~USER. It supported only "expansion" of ~USER/.
> This support always worked in Emacs on Windows.
Expansion of ~USER/, yes; of ~USER, no.
- 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, 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, 2012/11/30
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong,
Drew Adams <=
- 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