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27.0.50; expand-file-name: default directory expanded twice if relative |
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Sun, 4 Nov 2018 11:54:49 +0100 |
I have recently tried to play with a clean .emacs.d directory by setting
HOME=clean/home/dir, but faced an error coming from deep inside
package-install. The error boils down to the fact that
`expand-file-name' for some reason doubles the `default-directory'
prefix when it is relative:
$ emacs -Q -batch --eval '(let ((default-directory "DEFAULT-DIR/"))
(print (expand-file-name "EXPANDED-DIR/")))'
"DEFAULT-DIR/DEFAULT-DIR/EXPANDED-DIR/"
Interestingly, if you run `expand-file-name' twice you end up with four
prefixes:
$ emacs -Q -batch --eval '(let ((default-directory "DEFAULT-DIR/"))
(print (expand-file-name (expand-file-name "EXPANDED-DIR/"))))'
"DEFAULT-DIR/DEFAULT-DIR/DEFAULT-DIR/DEFAULT-DIR/EXPANDED-DIR/"
I couldn't find any requirement for DEFAULT-DIRECTORY parameter or
`default-directory' variable to be absolute, so I would assume this is a
bug in expand-file-name.
In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9)
of 2018-07-09 built on mmrcomp
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27.0.50; expand-file-name: default directory expanded twice if relative |
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Tue, 13 Nov 2018 10:26:43 -0800 |
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I think a non-absolute HOME is a user error.
Eg cd $HOME may then not be idempotent.
That's true. However, POSIX says that sh treats ~/foo like $HOME/foo
even when HOME is not absolute, and it's better if Emacs is consistent
with POSIX as much as possible within the Emacs constraint that
expand-file-name must expand to an absolute file name. So I implemented
something along the line of Noam's suggestion by installing the attached
patch into master; this should fix the bug originally reported.
Unlike Noam's suggestion, this patch causes Emacs to look at the current
value of HOME, not the value HOME had when Emacs started up, as that
corresponds more closely to POSIX sh.
0001-Act-like-POSIX-sh-if-HOME-is-relative.patch
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