From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:08:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7FC6A56C048B4EEAAE8EF71367793001@us.oracle.com> <409B80A02CEB4F14B201BE9F3D5EE93C@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354306200 16120 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2012 20:10:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:10:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13033@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 30 21:10:12 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TeWuY-0003TF-8l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:10:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59652 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeWuM-0002VK-Qk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:09:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50932) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeWuK-0002Ux-5g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:09:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeWuJ-000803-4A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:09:56 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37207) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeWuJ-0007zz-11 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:09:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TeWwL-0006EF-RC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:12:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:12:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13033 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 13033-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13033.135430626723869 (code B ref 13033); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:12:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13033) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Nov 2012 20:11:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47458 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TeWvS-0006Cw-Nk for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:11:07 -0500 Original-Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:57890) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TeWvR-0006Cp-Em for 13033@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:11:05 -0500 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([24.201.208.110]) by VL-VM-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-22.01 64bit (built Apr 21 2011)) with ESMTP id <0MEB0091ZHAYM950@VL-VM-MR001.ip.videotron.ca> for 13033@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:08:58 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 59EF066109; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:08:57 -0500 (EST) In-reply-to: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:67688 Archived-At: >> Are you really sure that >> (read-file-name-internal "~" 'file-exists-p nil) returns >> "~/dradams/" even though >> (completion--file-name-table "~" 'file-exists-p nil) >> returns "~dradams/" > No, sorry; my bad. They both return "~dradams/". OK, thanks, that makes a lot more sense. So, that looks correct (i.e. not a bug). So, were you simply surprised at this behavior, or did it actually lead to an actual problem somewhere? >> > And there is no such directory ~dradams either. >> Actually, there should be (in the same sense that there is a directory >> named ~, i.e. it's a shorthand expanded by Emacs, more specifically by >> `expand-file-name'). >> What does C-x C-f ~dradams/.emacs RET do? It should open >> your ~/.emacs file. > It does. Now. But it does not in older releases. It's done so under posix "for ever". > That's OK for an Emacs convention. I just was not aware of it. (And for MS > Windows itself there is still no association between HOME and the user login > name, AFAIK. This is an Emacs-only convention. Nothing wrong with that, > obviously.) Right, I'll let Windows users figure out whether it's useful or not. Stefan