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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 13033@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 08:34:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <66BA6F2DC0D54C7E962EC2F82CA84A7E@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ip8mtdt6.fsf@gnu.org>

> > > Emacs on Windows supports ~USER only when USER is the 
> > > current user.
> > 
> > Yes, that's what the doc says.  But until now, Emacs did 
> > not support expansion of ~USER.  It supported only "expansion"
> > of ~USER/.
> 
> You mean, 'M-: (expand-file-name "~dradams") RET' doesn't work for you
> in any previous releases?  It does for me (with my username instead of
> dradams) at least since 21.4.  It expands to my home directory.
> 
> If that is not what you mean, then what "expansion" are you talking
> about?

I thought I made clear that I was talking about completion.
I used quotation marks around "expansion" to emphasize that.
What is new is the completion behavior.






  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-01 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-29 21:44 bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong Drew Adams
2012-11-29 23:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-30 13:12   ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-11-30 13:55     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-01 10:13       ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-11-30  3:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-30  4:08   ` Drew Adams
2012-11-30 17:00     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-30 17:24       ` Drew Adams
2012-11-30 18:44         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-30 19:50           ` Drew Adams
2012-11-30 20:07             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-30 21:09               ` Drew Adams
2012-12-01  7:46                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-01 16:34                   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-11-30 20:08             ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-30 20:42               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-30 21:14               ` Drew Adams
2014-02-09  2:51                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-11-30 19:01       ` Eli Zaretskii

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