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bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wron
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:42:14 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:08:57 -0500
> Cc: 13033@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> > And there is no such directory ~dradams either.
> >> Actually, there should be (in the same sense that there is a directory
> >> named ~, i.e. it's a shorthand expanded by Emacs, more specifically by
> >> `expand-file-name').
> >> What does C-x C-f ~dradams/.emacs RET do? It should open
> >> your ~/.emacs file.
> > It does. Now. But it does not in older releases.
>
> It's done so under posix "for ever".
And it's done so on Windows forever as well.
> > That's OK for an Emacs convention. I just was not aware of it. (And for MS
> > Windows itself there is still no association between HOME and the user login
> > name, AFAIK. This is an Emacs-only convention. Nothing wrong with that,
> > obviously.)
>
> Right, I'll let Windows users figure out whether it's useful or not.
They (Windows users) already did.
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, (continued)
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/29
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Drew Adams, 2012/11/29
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/30
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Drew Adams, 2012/11/30
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/30
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Drew Adams, 2012/11/30
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/30
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Drew Adams, 2012/11/30
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/30
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Drew Adams, 2012/11/30
- bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/30