From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mosur Mohan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#4592: Bug in built-in function substitute-in-file-name Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 00:13:02 -0700 Message-ID: <7f5ab920910030013n1b4b88f8he564ae610cb90236@mail.gmail.com> References: <7f5ab920909291737r4b739331v40b9d9ea703ef440@mail.gmail.com> <8hd455coyo.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Mosur Mohan , 4592@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254595659 6297 80.91.229.12 (3 Oct 2009 18:47:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 18:47:39 +0000 (UTC) To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 03 20:47:32 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mu9dk-0004x3-FC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:47:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51012 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mu9dk-0007Kw-1e for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:47:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mu9dU-0007AW-2L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:47:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mu9dO-00074z-Uv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:47:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44616 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mu9dO-00074c-Of for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:47:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:40189) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mu9dO-0004JD-4I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:47:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n93Il8d9008856; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 11:47:08 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n93Ij6xx008316; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 11:45:06 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Mosur Mohan Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:45:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 4592 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: unreproducible moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 4592-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B4592.12545951197276 (code B ref 4592); Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:45:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at 4592) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 3 Oct 2009 18:38:39 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [140.186.70.10]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n93IcbPb007272 for <4592@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 11:38:38 -0700 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Mu9V6-00087J-Vl for 4592@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:38:37 -0400 Resent-Message-ID: <19143.39468.834261.42990@fencepost.gnu.org> Resent-Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 14:38:36 -0400 Resent-From: Glenn Morris Resent-To: 4592@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=21E9WyCguSvkmawoGOIi14XatU7YKyARWAkB+o8SB+Y=; b=Lv5yIT07eDDWTQX46vTNWdr5glKMdqsVNs3Lffhfr7CYACC5Ub0fHemj9SG+FQRD1W HwALDUxuKLxYQtP59oRROu3hDhgob9W5tyhAcHxx5PW4uHfAO7EJvgAtgf5Jd+/y69Mc UykBvZ5J+gaJbYUi2zvx+hYkCcoG8j9jNl4Pc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=e9PbtQYeDpTJCoKRIfDAlvVGKELge4NjYHHYSh50K1PtglzHWMTwVxpqiuEtgZ4BkJ SvfDac23M+JI9C/AFJZCbLeuBtUA/XramK6riUvkMXEXLPZzmAdzf/6O8yi8KND5PUUa iiuXFEDcERSzQtaQHFvcgIXR0grTI1jS3aOtE= In-Reply-To: <8hd455coyo.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Bogosity: no, spamicity=0.056706, v1.0.1 Resent-Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:38:36 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:31658 Archived-At: I was afraid you were gonna say that... :-) Unfortunately I haven't been able to pin down the exact recipe; in the "good" session, I'm still chugging along and the error hasn't occurred yet. Thanks for your help anyway! If I figure out the recipe to trigger this behavior, I will get in touch with you again. -- Mohan On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > Mosur Mohan wrote: > >> I am running Emacs version 21.3 on a Linux x86_64 machine. > [...] >> After running for a while, I notice that filename completion starts >> giving errors. =A0At this point, I re-try the above experiment: >> =A0 =A0 (substitute-in-file-name "/~/") >> But now, I get: >> =A0 =A0 "/~/" > > Unfortunately, this seems a rather obscure problem, and Emacs 21 is > quite old, so you are unlikely to get much help unless you can give a > simple recipe showing how to get into this state (starting from emacs > -q --no-site-file). In any case, I would recommend upgrading to Emacs 23. >