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Re: find-file and filename containing '~'
From: |
Katsumi Yamaoka |
Subject: |
Re: find-file and filename containing '~' |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:55:55 +0900 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> In <u3blubc1f.fsf@siemens.com> Heinz Rommerskirchen wrote:
> After a download with wget I got the file
> ~/tmp/itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002654.html on my
> hard disk. Trying to open this with find-file I didn't succeed because
> of the '~' in the middle of the name. No way of escaping I cold think
> of worked. I tried escaping with \ and C-Q, quoting with ' and " and,
> as described in the info-file, /: in front of the whole filename and
> inserted in the filename in front of the offending ~myl. Only by using
> dired I could get at the file.
> emacs -q --no-site-file didn't help either.
> Is this my stupidity, a bug/missing feature in emacs, or a missing
> description in the info file?
> This is with
> "GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) of 2003-03-28 on buffy",
> running under "Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4)"
Try:
C-x C-f ~/tmp/itre.cis.upenn.edu/ RET
C-x C-f ~/tmp/itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002654.html RET
This seems to have been fixed in Emacs 22.