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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 33255@debbugs.gnu.org, immerrr again <immerrr@gmail.com>,
	Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#33255: 27.0.50; expand-file-name: default directory expanded twice if relative
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:17:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0c2e43c3-82ec-5783-391d-e79549c5c1db@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd7ehf4jiz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

On 11/14/18 10:10 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Can you point me to the citation for that please

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_01

> I'm a bit disappointed to see that a relative HOME is now documented
> in the Emacs manuals, since IMO it lends legitimacy to a questionable
> usage. I don't see it mentioned in eg the bash manual.
> I also don't see why it is in NEWS since it is described as
> a bug fix, and those aren't normally mentioned.

My initial reaction was the same as yours, which is why my original fix 
didn't document the change in the manual or in NEWS. Eli felt otherwise, 
though.






  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-14 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-04 10:54 bug#33255: 27.0.50; expand-file-name: default directory expanded twice if relative immerrr again
2018-11-04 12:27 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-11-05  0:58   ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-13 18:26 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-13 20:12   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-14 18:10   ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-14 18:17     ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-11-14 19:52       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-20 19:11         ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-20 19:26           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-20 19:08       ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-20 20:44         ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-22 18:25           ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-23 20:22             ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-27  5:42               ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-27 18:11                 ` Paul Eggert

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