From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 36490@debbugs.gnu.org, erik_hahn@gmx.de
Subject: bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~"
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:56:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a7dm3pl2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3h87u14ui.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 10 Jul 2019 13:55:33 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: 36490@debbugs.gnu.org, erik_hahn@gmx.de
> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 13:55:33 +0200
>
> > (file-name-as-directory "~")
> > => "~/"
> >
> > So just running "~" through an innocent API gives you a "magic"
> > directory name (if you consider "~" not "magic" by itself). How is
> > this different from the "odd" use case where one must quote "~" to
> > avoid its interpretation as the home directory? Who can guarantee
> > that some day directory-files-recursively will not want to do
> > something like the above? If it does, we will be right back at the
> > same problem.
>
> Well... That kinda sounds odd to me.
>
> "~/" is not, and never will be, a valid file name in any OS that Emacs
> is going to support from now on.
I don't think I follow you. "~" is a perfectly valid name of a
directory, and Emacs does support such names in general. So I don't
think I understand why you are saying this will not be a valid file
name. What did I miss?
> But changing that is probably not going to happen, so how about just
> clarifying the documentation in that function to say what "~" means
> explicitly instead of the caller having to guess?
I don't object to documenting this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-10 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-03 18:07 bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~" Erik Hahn
2019-07-08 20:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-08 21:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-08 21:30 ` Erik Hahn
2019-07-08 21:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-09 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-09 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-09 15:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-09 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-09 16:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-09 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-09 16:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-09 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-09 17:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-09 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-09 18:16 ` Michael Albinus
2019-07-10 11:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-10 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-07-11 15:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-09 18:58 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-09 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-09 16:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-07-10 12:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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