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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 25183@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:54:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760mpxf3q.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83eg1dccvh.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:48:18 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
>> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:54:06 +0100
>> 
>> 
>> Expanding a quoted file name works wrong on w32 systems. With Emacs
>> running on ‘gnu/linux’, there is
>> 
>> (expand-file-name "/:~/path/./file")
>> => "/:~/path/file"
>> 
>> This is correct. With Emacs running on ‘windows-nt’, there is
>> 
>> (expand-file-name "/:~/path/./file")
>> => "/:c:/Users/lb01177/AppData/Roaming/path/file"
>
> Try
>
>    (expand-file-name "/:c:/~/path/./file")
>
> expand-file-name needs to produce an absolute file name, and a file
> name that begins with a "~" isn't.
>
> IOW, I believe this is a feature.  If you think it isn't, please
> explain why.

(file-name-absolute-p "/:~/path/./file")
=> t

Best regards, Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-12 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-12 15:54 bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32 Michael Albinus
2016-12-12 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-12 16:54   ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2016-12-12 18:11     ` Drew Adams
2016-12-12 18:17       ` Drew Adams
2016-12-13  0:39     ` Noam Postavsky
2016-12-13  1:08       ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-13  1:10         ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-13  1:33         ` npostavs
2016-12-13  8:30           ` Michael Albinus
2016-12-13 16:28             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-24 12:52               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-24 13:57                 ` npostavs
2016-12-24 16:06                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-24 17:43                     ` Noam Postavsky
2016-12-24 18:00                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-24 18:51                         ` npostavs
2016-12-27  8:17                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-25 11:31                 ` Michael Albinus
2016-12-26 15:58                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-26 16:19                     ` Michael Albinus
2016-12-27  8:14                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-27  9:56                         ` Michael Albinus
2017-01-27  9:51                           ` Michael Albinus

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