From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:42:14 +0200 Message-ID: <83k3t2u8k9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <7FC6A56C048B4EEAAE8EF71367793001@us.oracle.com> <409B80A02CEB4F14B201BE9F3D5EE93C@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354308185 803 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2012 20:43:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:43:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13033@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 30 21:43:13 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TeXQU-0006XD-WB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:43:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39360 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeXQJ-0002H7-J8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:42:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38710) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeXQG-0002H2-HR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:42:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeXQF-0000Q7-Gb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:42:56 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37246) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeXQF-0000Pt-D7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:42:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TeXSH-00070y-Uo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:45:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:45:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13033 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 13033-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13033.135430827926918 (code B ref 13033); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:45:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13033) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Nov 2012 20:44:39 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47497 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TeXRv-000706-E2 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:44:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:42738) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TeXRs-0006zy-J2 for 13033@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:44:37 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MEB00M00HXTWS00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 13033@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:42:28 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MEB00MUSIURQDB0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:42:28 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:67691 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:08:57 -0500 > Cc: 13033@debbugs.gnu.org > > >> > And there is no such directory ~dradams either. > >> Actually, there should be (in the same sense that there is a directory > >> named ~, i.e. it's a shorthand expanded by Emacs, more specifically by > >> `expand-file-name'). > >> What does C-x C-f ~dradams/.emacs RET do? It should open > >> your ~/.emacs file. > > It does. Now. But it does not in older releases. > > It's done so under posix "for ever". And it's done so on Windows forever as well. > > That's OK for an Emacs convention. I just was not aware of it. (And for MS > > Windows itself there is still no association between HOME and the user login > > name, AFAIK. This is an Emacs-only convention. Nothing wrong with that, > > obviously.) > > Right, I'll let Windows users figure out whether it's useful or not. They (Windows users) already did.