From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 36490@debbugs.gnu.org, erik_hahn@gmx.de
Subject: bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~"
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 19:12:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8336jf5grv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3lfx76wbq.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Tue, 09 Jul 2019 17:50:49 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: erik_hahn@gmx.de, 36490@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 17:50:49 +0200
>
> > If you want "~" to be interpreted literally, you need to protect it
> > with "/:".
>
> Sorry; I don't quite follow you here. The doc string says that "~/" is
> interpreted specially. There's no "/" in "~". :-)
But it does NOT say that "~" will NOT be interpreted specially.
> That
>
> (expand-file-name "~/" "/tmp/")
> => "/home/larsi/"
>
> is fine, because "~/" isn't a valid file name. But "~" is, and that's
> the problem.
No, I think the problem is that the caller should have protected the
literal "~", as I said.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-09 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-03 18:07 bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~" Erik Hahn
2019-07-08 20:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-08 21:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-08 21:30 ` Erik Hahn
2019-07-08 21:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-09 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-09 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-09 15:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-09 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-07-09 16:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-09 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-09 16:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-09 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-09 17:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-09 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-09 18:16 ` Michael Albinus
2019-07-10 11:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-10 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-11 15:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-09 18:58 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-09 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-09 16:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-07-10 12:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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