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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 17950@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17950: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `read-file-name' from a menu (mouse) treats "~/" as	installation dir
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 17:25:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d2dief8e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4e125d2-d0a9-472f-a8e5-dda0eeb7a486@default>

> Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 14:29:24 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> 
> emacs -Q
> 
> (defun foo (file)
>   (interactive (list (read-file-name "Foo: " "~/")))
>   (message "File is `%s'" file))
> 
> (define-key menu-bar-file-menu [foo] '(menu-item "FOOOO" foo))
> 
> (expand-file-name "~/") ; correctly returns my home directory, as in
> previous Emacs versions.
> 
> And `M-x foo' correctly uses `~/' as the directory.
> 
> But invoking the same command `foo' from the menu (item `FOOOO') uses
> the Emacs installation directory instead.

I cannot reproduce this here with today's trunk.  When I select the
foo item from the menu, the file selection dialog that pops up shows
me my home directory, as I'd expect.

So something else is at work here.  Perhaps the important detail you
left out is how exactly did you invoke "emacs -Q".





  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-06 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-05 21:29 bug#17950: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `read-file-name' from a menu (mouse) treats "~/" as installation dir Drew Adams
2014-07-06 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] <<a4e125d2-d0a9-472f-a8e5-dda0eeb7a486@default>
     [not found] ` <<83d2dief8e.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-07-06 15:10   ` Drew Adams
2014-07-06 15:56     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-07 15:13       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-07 16:39         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-12  9:28           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-06 19:44     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <<a01720bc-d3f4-408c-9068-c8fd00ac0fc2@default>
     [not found]     ` <<83a98meb0w.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-07-06 16:05       ` Drew Adams
2014-07-06 19:14         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <<6c30925f-66d0-470a-b1db-0f8200e39bbe@default>
     [not found]         ` <<838uo6e1v9.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-07-06 23:00           ` Drew Adams
2014-07-07  2:38             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <<83zjglcice.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-07-07 16:23         ` Drew Adams
     [not found]     ` <<837g3qe0hm.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-07-06 22:57       ` Drew Adams

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