From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~" Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:56:57 +0300 Message-ID: <83a7dm3pl2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87muhvyotd.fsf@gmx.de> <87zhlo1bfl.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <83bly35igd.fsf@gnu.org> <8336jf5grv.fsf@gnu.org> <83wogr40pc.fsf@gnu.org> <83v9wb40bf.fsf@gnu.org> <83sgrf3yx5.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="122805"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 36490@debbugs.gnu.org, erik_hahn@gmx.de To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 10 16:58:22 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hlE33-000Vqa-VR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:58:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34434 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hlE32-0000VP-D9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:58:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59631) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hlE2l-0000V2-8Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:58:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hlE2k-0006f5-Ah for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:58:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:55810) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hlE2k-0006eb-72 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hlE2k-00049V-3l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:58:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 14:58:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 36490 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: confirmed fixed Original-Received: via spool by 36490-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B36490.156277064015905 (code B ref 36490); Wed, 10 Jul 2019 14:58:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36490) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Jul 2019 14:57:20 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36398 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hlE24-00048R-1z for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:57:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46962) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hlE22-00048D-Ef for 36490@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:57:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45735) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hlE1w-0005rH-Ld; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:57:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3750 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hlE1t-0000Hy-Sr; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:57:10 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 10 Jul 2019 13:55:33 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:162645 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > 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.