Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:
>
>> In the *IBuffer*, files in my home directory are displayed with names
>> starting with ‘~’, but when I type % f ~ RET I get no matches. If I type
>> instead % f /home/MYUSER RET then all files in my home directory are
>> matched.
>>
>> I’m not convinced that the matches should be made in the second case,
>> even; but certainly they _should_ be made in the first.
>
> The following patch fixes this by matching on the abbreviated file name
> (which is what ibuffer uses to create the displayed file name).
>
> But I guess this could be a controversial change -- does anybody have an
> objection to making this change?  
>
> diff --git a/lisp/ibuf-ext.el b/lisp/ibuf-ext.el
> index 1b69574a39..06a2248d40 100644
> --- a/lisp/ibuf-ext.el
> +++ b/lisp/ibuf-ext.el
> @@ -1846,7 +1846,8 @@ ibuffer-mark-by-file-name-regexp
>  			  (stringp dired-directory)
>  			  dired-directory)))))
>  	 (when name
> -	   (string-match regexp name))))))
> +           ;; Match on the displayed file name (which is abbreviated).
> +	   (string-match regexp (abbreviate-file-name name)))))))

Any objections to this followup fix for master?