From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 09:36:50 +0200 Message-ID: <877exxpe25.fsf@detlef> References: <68b2e6ef-bf0b-ebcf-c577-d296952d593f@cs.ucla.edu> <83pobqcnlf.fsf@gnu.org> <83h8x2ckqn.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3qexfeo.fsf@detlef> <8a526a4a-fd11-06c7-8ad4-bc00a667bcd1@cs.ucla.edu> <871so62gql.fsf@detlef> <9d6b82a7-034c-da82-5510-e9cdef3068c4@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503301097 29265 195.159.176.226 (21 Aug 2017 07:38:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 07:38:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Philipp Stephani , 28156@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 21 09:38:12 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1djhHo-0007LW-GZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Mon, 21 Aug 2017 09:36:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: <9d6b82a7-034c-da82-5510-e9cdef3068c4@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:47:02 -0700") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:Vuw1gGCAlsR/RGJFayM6xCR9Tb953K9mbtxxotrS+CACcC75ooP TVMXSt5ibQAcHGPyxcz1o8S96o1YXFCUpU/VSbkuy1LQl5Cn4xoaLEWma3OBNK/3bAZEIiq ft4LW7uBkSPzhE9Cgh9E0lSXO0dR5bCd58lhUL2jdwWPLkWCXNOuCARfCvqqO0n+Rl9GwBt eN1Ngbd0dOAMC3Njdg9Vg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:5EP6XKxHpMw=:ZgNG+r94C8FdJfSTt/UySq ZV10eRjIo8FGiRavj0opcVnoEza91qIn3vp8T15ATNyZ1x6lByK9PbIv3CfgokCMXuNot3W/m tqG8z3y2nxDm4tkHE7ZyOw6dmz1OtCfiQHqMmOZrNqeIZ9htCt5tqOo5+C+Cm7m8HXBB4YIAO d8pk0vYcImfTah8vWavd0AIdtMGhdAY6BxREHHpXLeLZsOyOgtlbYZz8+MCyvoHTbIEnn380/ 3CHmDKNQByCXZ5Gm6svZ3e/VmmX2RN9D1cMmLCiNLbgir+w8+KHxpAPWwd3drUdHDjEUxOV1v 05yyYYg2Hhhp4N8qCUs1qZS7yRUQcSjEDEDLRiOrwMUxbZlrtVycTSLEzg3GefIaC0q0kP66S RD2q4Gh0/rJ6Valw1EiCd3zDfU1LZJYc0YcmQ2i78Zwvg3Aga+gVmqu43OuyPdRXIyei4oyTW brmOjaZfXaNSmw3jbIdoYwnwv/DcX/RI1qfHHDXbD6rW3qtYQvsz7vBAhHqxyTqBTCq76qJ4e FMWVgWtezO1aWQyciZrSPkwClrI8RlT4A3RsBj0OsRG7Ni7PC7sQSDmwO/jgL0EqlokizDbLq c5oa8ldFmKlXL8xNSzKpSfBY9CnEBze3cmB2FidnDpwIo5s5gGiF5wWXHUQupieBLZ0/Qn+N3 8GU7l0m/R+cE1lMl0P4b+0XMaRiavGD2Hi54Zzo/qo5jus7TWbypqNOwQ0kYKJdSi9TvpdLG6 gy97tf8+Xh0hbrhpV7FS4bj275UHswTc9sREq37U36F+21HoiaSYt9f8zXw2v0cU+mp5N6bB 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: 208.118.235.43 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:135981 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: Hi Paul, > By "Tramp quoting" I was referring to the technique you used in > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=28156#23 to create a > symlink whose name starts with "~", by prefixing the name with > "/:/tmp/". I don't know why the "/:" is there ... See the lower part of (info "(elisp) File Name Expansion") Best regards, Michael.