Re: Emacs and Squiggles as filenames

[David Kastrup]

"D Goel" <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:
>
>> "D Goel" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> (expand-file-name (file-name-nondirectory fname) dir)
>>>
>
>> This works for me:
>> (concat (file-name-as-directory "~/tmp")
>>         (file-name-nondirectory "~/tmp/~"))
>>
>
>
> Thanks, I will use just that. 
>
> (I do remember reading in the manual though that the former is
> preferable, because it is portable across OSes, including VMS..)

The latter, with file-name-as-directory, should also do the trick on
VMS unless I am mistaken.

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