From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~" Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 13:55:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87muhvyotd.fsf@gmx.de> <87zhlo1bfl.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <83bly35igd.fsf@gnu.org> <8336jf5grv.fsf@gnu.org> <83wogr40pc.fsf@gnu.org> <83v9wb40bf.fsf@gnu.org> <83sgrf3yx5.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="196930"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 36490@debbugs.gnu.org, erik_hahn@gmx.de To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 10 14:05:59 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hlBME-000ogg-Fb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Wed, 10 Jul 2019 13:55:36 +0200 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAHlBMVEXu5+aupJbBtq/NxsqU TDijmo8qFhV9MR2GdnCXjoeskUAIAAACPUlEQVQ4jXXTP3PTMBQAcN3xBaIcunO22qFDtzSGO1Y4 Ne5YAyrSSK/IZoXghrEQN9JWAybSt+U92U4Tjr6hg355f+TqEW79LloxBGVkAOEFnjMKIXJKEZwx RlhrajyAeMr5Dpww1kIFSsdJnC35q5jwoXJO8fdJAqAznhDeioe+AZ5xrRGE8GYImCEfP890EUC5 cLge9B1fLHkKAAlra/Yiu+FnAMptdOm7QiEM5/w1gDeVtg5H7q/v1pxPETa68BvrbQ/qm42nKYC7 06VafOrKY6L5fUSezAiHSh/UnTdQgGNnW8sRgeBwnSvlYzmMVIrobYqlMgDfzFn3jdX2WkS/AlSY 8WZ23P8nZNFG9ySFHusAZKKEsrIVUSGiC5KS0DyAb9+Xf74yhK45gkDw2/PLMxoV+SEcC5Uttz7/ H1S6UO1hKehx0joN4F3RyqP9jBMLoGkYtwOHMCaRgblLCs2bfYAeHjJKFqY6BOF1VQqA9h9QXuuP ef4IiAZhNMBnBNcCyBrh4hBspWu3B7KHO13pqlq58Nn34CVcr8huzk3RyAM4hd1o4FXL66ZvLhcB 5mE1aOxW+cNUVyJP4w6oM8PN8SMy9X0H7W00DY8BoHxxaRjt9oxKIzuQG63H0ggmWKDIeBJKxZDy ZVL3G4XFfnSQTGANTuHxhD3EWqMeMOWWsZYyWHJGRUM6mM4nJlsZX4dKdc5GA6TDg8YttGI828E8 iRmsM26Z/5n25wgQ8GcOK56EG+zDQcweg5D1F5yrYYQWPlurAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC In-Reply-To: <83sgrf3yx5.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 09 Jul 2019 20:23:02 +0300") 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: 209.51.188.43 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:162617 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> "~/" isn't something you'll ever get from functions like >> directory-files > > That's sheer luck, because: > > (file-name-as-directory "~") > => "~/" > > So just running "~" through an innocent API gives you a "magic" > directory name (if you consider "~" not "magic" by itself). How is > this different from the "odd" use case where one must quote "~" to > avoid its interpretation as the home directory? Who can guarantee > that some day directory-files-recursively will not want to do > something like the above? If it does, we will be right back at the > same problem. Well... That kinda sounds odd to me. "~/" is not, and never will be, a valid file name in any OS that Emacs is going to support from now on. So having that have a special meaning in `expand-file-name' is not surprising. Having "~" do something special is surprising. But changing that is probably not going to happen, so how about just clarifying the documentation in that function to say what "~" means explicitly instead of the caller having to guess? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no