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bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~" |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 17:05:49 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> "~/" is not, and never will be, a valid file name in any OS that Emacs
>> is going to support from now on.
>
> I don't think I follow you. "~" is a perfectly valid name of a
> directory, and Emacs does support such names in general. So I don't
> think I understand why you are saying this will not be a valid file
> name. What did I miss?
"~" and "~/" are not the same thing in any OS that Emacs is currently
supporting. The first is a file name (including directories, which are
just files), while the second is a file name with a slash after it.
Inside Emacs, though, things are different.
>> But changing that is probably not going to happen, so how about just
>> clarifying the documentation in that function to say what "~" means
>> explicitly instead of the caller having to guess?
>
> I don't object to documenting this.
OK; I'll do so.
--
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- bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~", (continued)
- bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~", Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/09
- bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~", Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/07/09
- bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~", Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/09
- bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~", Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/07/09
- bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~", Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/09
- bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~", Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/07/09
- bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~", Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/09
- bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~", Michael Albinus, 2019/07/09
- bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~", Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/07/10
- bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~", Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/10
- bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~",
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=
- bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~", Basil L. Contovounesios, 2019/07/09
- bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~", Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/09
- bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~", Andreas Schwab, 2019/07/09
bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~", Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/07/10