From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33255: 27.0.50; expand-file-name: default directory expanded twice if relative Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:58:01 -0500 Message-ID: <3336sg2vdy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <878t29hvta.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1541379736 1926 195.159.176.226 (5 Nov 2018 01:02:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 01:02:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: 33255@debbugs.gnu.org, immerrr again To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 05 02:02:12 2018 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 1gJTHP-0000PE-K8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 02:02:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60775 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJTJV-0005ov-T9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 20:04:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39869) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJTJP-0005nu-H1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 20:04:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJTEM-0004H8-81 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:59:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:58418) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJTEM-0004Fr-3g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:59:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gJTEM-0005gz-1S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:59:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 00:59:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 33255 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 33255-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B33255.154137949321821 (code B ref 33255); Mon, 05 Nov 2018 00:59:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 33255) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Nov 2018 00:58:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34443 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gJTDZ-0005ft-2i for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:58:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57591) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gJTDW-0005fg-Ra for 33255@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:58:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJTDR-0002W7-0f for 33255@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:58:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42682) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJTDO-0002Uc-F0; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:58:02 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gJTDN-0002S6-63; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:58:01 -0500 X-Spook: Bush Wired BLU-114/B Spammer anthrax 2600 Magazine Drug X-Ran: U`[zl):LyD"q~h@rDg\1rOQD2{*vWksv (Noam Postavsky's message of "Sun, 04 Nov 2018 07:27:29 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:152037 Archived-At: Noam Postavsky wrote: > immerrr again writes: > >> I have recently tried to play with a clean .emacs.d directory by setting >> HOME=clean/home/dir, I think a non-absolute HOME is a user error. Eg cd $HOME may then not be idempotent. I would use $PWD/clean/home/dir. > I think it would make sense for Emacs to expand HOME against the current > directory when it starts up, if HOME is relative. I would rather see Emacs abort with an error. Otherwise you have to eg fix up process-environment too, else child processes may behave oddly.