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: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:35:46 +0300 Message-ID: <83bly35igd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87muhvyotd.fsf@gmx.de> <87zhlo1bfl.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="139475"; 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 Tue Jul 09 17:53:21 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 1hksQh-000YtN-Qc for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 17:53:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51196 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hksC9-0002qx-4E for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 11:38:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47541) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hksAz-000209-Jy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 11:37:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hksAy-0006Zc-Ky for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 11:37:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53231) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hksAy-0006ZH-DU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 11:37:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hksAy-0002YG-3m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 11:37:04 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 15:37:04 +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 Original-Received: via spool by 36490-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B36490.15626865699737 (code B ref 36490); Tue, 09 Jul 2019 15:37:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36490) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Jul 2019 15:36:09 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33817 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hksA5-0002Wz-Iq for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 11:36:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34924) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hksA3-0002WZ-M2 for 36490@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 11:36:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52840) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hks9y-0005p6-8O; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 11:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1781 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hks9x-0003ke-81; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 11:36:01 -0400 In-reply-to: <87zhlo1bfl.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 08 Jul 2019 23:08:46 +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:162501 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 23:08:46 +0200 > Cc: 36490@debbugs.gnu.org > > Actually, the doc string of expand-file-name is either wrong, or the > implementation is. > > It says: > > --- > An initial ‘~/’ expands to your home directory. > An initial ‘~USER/’ expands to USER’s home directory. > --- > > Assuming the "An initial" refers to the first parameter, then > > (expand-file-name "~/" "/tmp/") > => "/home/larsi/" > > works as advertised, but > > (expand-file-name "~" "/tmp/") > => "/home/larsi" > > is a different thing: "~" is a perfectly valid file name, so having this > function map that to something else is just... wrong. If you want "~" to be interpreted literally, you need to protect it with "/:". > (expand-file-name "~larsi" "/tmp/") > => "/home/larsi" > > is the same: Also wrong and undocumented. Why would we want to document that? > The doc string continues with further confusion: > > --- > See also the function ‘substitute-in-file-name’. > --- > > See it for... what? For expanding environment variables, and for the special effect of "//" etc. > So what to do here? I think the current, undocumented > > (expand-file-name "~" "/tmp/") > => "/home/larsi" > > must surely be an error, and that should be fixed instead of the > callers? Opinions? It is not an error.