From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mark Lillibridge <mdl@foil.strangled.net>
Cc: 20205@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20205: 24.4; lgrep will not accept a directory of ~ to search; problem with read-file-name?
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:31:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837fu3oh3p.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sicsmk21.fsf@foil.strangled.net>
> From: Mark Lillibridge <mdl@foil.strangled.net>
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:58:30 -0700
>
>
> (found also in Emacs 24.3, not in 24.2)
>
> Recipe:
> emacs -q
>
> M-x lgrep enter
> target enter
> enter
> <edit mini-buffer to get ~; I had to backspace once then hit ~>
> enter
>
> when you hit the last enter, Emacs gives you a completion buffer and
> refuses to accept "~" as a valid directory to search. "~/" does work,
> however.
It's a feature: "~" gets completed to "~USER" where USER are the users
known by the system.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-26 4:58 bug#20205: 24.4; lgrep will not accept a directory of ~ to search; problem with read-file-name? Mark Lillibridge
2015-03-26 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-03-29 17:50 ` Mark Lillibridge
2019-09-30 0:41 ` Stefan Kangas
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