From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: cyd@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, 11385@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11385: 24.0.96; `image-dired-create-thumb': (file-error "Setting current directory" "no such file or directory" "$HOME/")
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 20:11:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837gwhxr21.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85AA540089A04BCE96E41A738A81EBD1@us.oracle.com>
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 09:34:16 -0700
> Cc: 'Chong Yidong' <cyd@gnu.org>, 11385@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > You need to find out who ever sets default-directory to
> > "c:/drews-lisp-20/$HOME/".
>
> Yes, it is my code that (mistakenly) does that. That is what is provoking the
> problem, but I think the image-dired code should anyway protect against such a
> case, instead of leading to a low-level error.
I think $HOME is not generally recognized in file names. Only a few
select functions know about it (substitute-in-file-name and
expand-file-name come to mind).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-12 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-30 17:30 bug#11385: 24.0.96; `image-dired-create-thumb': (file-error "Setting current directory" "no such file or directory" "$HOME/") Drew Adams
2012-05-06 4:43 ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-12 16:02 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-12 16:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-05-12 16:34 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-12 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-05-12 19:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-12 20:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-02-08 1:14 ` Glenn Morris
2012-05-12 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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