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#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 09:30:18 +0100 Message-ID: <877f745izp.fsf@gmx.de> References: <87a8c1xhwh.fsf@gmx.de> <83eg1dccvh.fsf@gnu.org> <8760mpxf3q.fsf@gmx.de> <87mvg0d33x.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481617881 11170 195.159.176.226 (13 Dec 2016 08:31:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 08:31:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 25183@debbugs.gnu.org To: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 13 09:31:18 2016 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 1cGiUW-0001Rc-J6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Tue, 13 Dec 2016 09:30:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87mvg0d33x.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (npostavs's message of "Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:33:54 -0500") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:7UpfqjPmTu+NQj3s7YYOZRWppa5SkAx3DGoOpxKVsCTGDY7OpOG wgFeBsOumwKRztQSaOJ1KAkr/gKRbnY2e4T/dAGshFU6WtvDjAWoO04tEIkkjHkbcRMnVSo k3pZZWPFr4bDOWHOb5vWe9+3StXlUGMsJoZ7QAkATPm3jd2XlSeZ+mgZp0b7GMXg1OM3LKv ctkDxLcdDPYPc6yXepCjg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:CTXSdJUXIHY=:2k6b0C8MQ54jtdDTlFliub 0QdyAsG9fP3+ap6L2GR323tqj9nymSoqblA7NpF/6Qpwp9WPRADDxet1lM4tvCzUHD0R1z4+J sq0S5EErTQfz10e8UlgRzKcBoCkjtRhM1gmFD0+B0eYYw6W+/xPvZiFbBuHUYEYuuHrBHEWg7 El61o3YlrslceI7SD5X+qHs76CL6nxFpfUhMJ/ghLuLY9zRiOedwdmp7nl49F3LNcJyIzsQ9L m09E5C6m0msay1R+81yup3gKKvC9xnfsul+0v35KMeSAVSrINVNs/86fgqQ7cBb24M8Y4gPQP GXBqKYe+JXn0ZZS8v9nApbe6c/Dle8pO4pUJxUOhciFY1v8sVEoUakJxajwnlKnmG+bH4atbm 8sGbDFat2DSTgzHQaCKT8L0oLhPDsOZw7a16TWoBqxyNJF/8xGHsBCyc03kZ9Y+cb2SAmHBS8 dKqaFSys5pwH2faSZcqLLauZk/GMr1jiC537D1+zorxLldIw3KlY/yB1qdNwvwX3Eh5tZNLM8 h1nDqc/QYIwOGTvLz3EZR/CPXfZrg9XpZmjBbm1PLnYFM8gfcPw8YMCl+n+jJRwwPtsNfBrz6 QuJnSkoZE5r153Gk4ALf60aFatJm0pq5ZXWpnZcMkuepJn4X9H43mlwjS7FEZ4ynZYK3vIgJp GG/cLgqLUbMoAsI30C0jgQddwZ/0gD6F1TmV2JMCVkqs7Zc2PVTNfKkshNQ+2/iTbFu1suCA1 oSOQykjm7GdHQmX1oO/k2fXp/j3cNHKqMV6jQTw2Cn7NOArmbyHpN2Sxug6s+Pnf2nnGSuxB 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:126974 Archived-At: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net writes: > Glenn Morris writes: > >> Noam Postavsky wrote: >> >>>>>> (expand-file-name "/:~/path/./file") >>>>>> => "/:~/path/file" >>> >>>>>> (expand-file-name "/:~/path/./file") >>>>>> => "/:c:/Users/lb01177/AppData/Roaming/path/file" >>> >>>> >>>> (file-name-absolute-p "/:~/path/./file") >>>> => t >>> >>> I think all these cases are user error, `(emacs) Quoted File Names' says >>> >>> You can "quote" an absolute file name [...] add '/:' at the beginning >>> >>> But you cannot quote a relative file name, which looks like what >>> you're trying to do here. It might better to throw an error than >>> return nonsense (though possibly not worth the trouble). >> >> But "~/blah" is an absolute file name. ? > > Yes, but in "/:~/blah", the /: should prevent expanding "~", so then it > seems not to refer to an absolute file name, but rather a file named > "blah" in a directory named literally "~". But if it's not an absolute > file name, then /: doesn't make sense. So it's a kind of paradox. This > is not w32 specific (although the actual implementation happens to > resolve the "paradox" in a different way on w32). Well, I don't want to insist that it *must* be solved. But there's different behaviour when running Emacs on GNU/Linux, or running on MS Windows. It is not an annoyance coming from a user's bug report; I've stumbled over this when running tramp-tests.el under many different environments. (expand-file-name "/:/~/path/./file") => "/:c:/~/path/file" looks better, althoug the volume drive would still disturb me. But that's my personal preference, the result might be OK on MS Windows. Eli? Best regards, Michael.