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Re: Emacs and Squiggles as filenames
From: |
Richard M. Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs and Squiggles as filenames |
Date: |
Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:21:12 -0400 |
If there exists a file named "~" in my ~/tmp/, I see funny things:
(expand-file-name (file-name-nondirectory "~/tmp/~") "~/tmp"), returns
=>/home/deego instead of /home/deego/tmp/~
That is a painful one. I am not sure what we could do to fix it,
other than make expand-file-name not handle ~. And I think that would
cause much worse problems, and fixing them would require a major
redesign that would break lots of Lisp code.
It is possible to refer to that file by writing `./~'.
So that expression would work right if we made file-name-nondirectory
return "./~". But I think that would break other things too.