find-file and filename containing '~'

find-file and filename containing '~'

[Heinz Rommerskirchen]

After a download with wget I got the file
~/tmp/itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002654.html on my
hard disk. Trying to open this with find-file I didn't succeed because
of the '~' in the middle of the name. No way of escaping I cold think
of worked. I tried escaping with \ and C-Q, quoting with ' and " and,
as described in the info-file, /: in front of the whole filename and
inserted in the filename in front of the offending ~myl. Only by using
dired I could get at the file.

emacs -q --no-site-file didn't help either.

Is this my stupidity, a bug/missing feature in emacs, or a missing
description in the info file?

This is with 
"GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) of 2003-03-28 on buffy",
running under "Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4)"


-- 
Regards

Heinz

Re: find-file and filename containing '~'

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <u3blubc1f.fsf@siemens.com> Heinz Rommerskirchen wrote:

> After a download with wget I got the file
> ~/tmp/itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002654.html on my
> hard disk. Trying to open this with find-file I didn't succeed because
> of the '~' in the middle of the name. No way of escaping I cold think
> of worked. I tried escaping with \ and C-Q, quoting with ' and " and,
> as described in the info-file, /: in front of the whole filename and
> inserted in the filename in front of the offending ~myl. Only by using
> dired I could get at the file.

> emacs -q --no-site-file didn't help either.

> Is this my stupidity, a bug/missing feature in emacs, or a missing
> description in the info file?

> This is with 
> "GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) of 2003-03-28 on buffy",
> running under "Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4)"

Try:

C-x C-f ~/tmp/itre.cis.upenn.edu/ RET
C-x C-f ~/tmp/itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002654.html RET

This seems to have been fixed in Emacs 22.

Re: find-file and filename containing '~'

[Heinz Rommerskirchen]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> >>>>> In <u3blubc1f.fsf@siemens.com> Heinz Rommerskirchen wrote:
> 
> > After a download with wget I got the file
> > ~/tmp/itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002654.html on my
> > hard disk. Trying to open this with find-file I didn't succeed because
> > of the '~' in the middle of the name. No way of escaping I cold think
> > of worked. I tried escaping with \ and C-Q, quoting with ' and " and,
> > as described in the info-file, /: in front of the whole filename and
> > inserted in the filename in front of the offending ~myl. Only by using
> > dired I could get at the file.
> 
snip
> 
> Try:
> 
> C-x C-f ~/tmp/itre.cis.upenn.edu/ RET
> C-x C-f ~/tmp/itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002654.html RET
> 
> This seems to have been fixed in Emacs 22.

This works, *if* I do not use completion in the minibuffer.
Thanks!

-- 
Regards

Heinz