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From: | Jim Porter |
Subject: | bug#65685: 29.1; Inconsistent behavior of quoted file name "/:~" across platforms |
Date: | Fri, 1 Sep 2023 12:22:09 -0700 |
According to the Emacs manual:
I'd interpret this to mean that the MS-Windows behavior is correct. However, the example doesn't specifically say what should happen when the tilde comes immediately after the "/:". On the very rare occasions you might need it, you can always spell "a file named tilde in the current directory" like "/:./~".‘/:’ can also prevent ‘~’ from being treated as a special character for a user’s home directory. For example, /:/tmp/~hack refers to a file whose name is ~hack in directory /tmp.
This is relevant to some future Eshell changes I'm considering[2], where (I think) I'd like "/:~" to mean "the user's local home directory, even when default-directory is remote". In light of that, my selfish preference is that we keep the GNU/Linux behavior and standardize it across all systems. However, we could standardize the MS-Windows behavior instead; I'd then just have to call out the different Eshell semantics in the Eshell manual.
[1] You can see this inconsistency with other commands too, like "M-x cd RET /:~ RET".
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-08/msg01244.html
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