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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: 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: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 19:52:52 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v9wb40bf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wogr40pc.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 09 Jul 2019 19:44:31 +0300)

> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 19:44:31 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 36490@debbugs.gnu.org, erik_hahn@gmx.de
> 
> What happens if a function that iterates over a directory finds a
> subdirectory whose name is literally "~"?

Sorry, that's not what I meant to say.  I meant to say how would a
Lisp program know whether (expand-file-name "~/") means the home
directory or a directory whose name is literally "~"?

Btw, stuff like (expand-file-name "foo/~/") already does what you
want, so the problem is only with the leading '~', and can be avoided
if we avoid that situation.  IOW, why should this example:

  (expand-file-name "~" "/tmp/")
     => "/home/larsi"

determine how directory-files-recursively behaves?





  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-09 16:52 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 [this message]
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
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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