From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: abdo.haji.ali@gmail.com, 49711@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49711: 27.2; Deleting a directory called ~ deletes home directory
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 15:17:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h7gjzz1c.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735s43pte.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sat, 24 Jul 2021 13:37:49 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 13:37:49 +0200
> Cc: 49711@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Apologies, I should have specified that I have
> > `delete-by-moving-to-trash` set to `t`.
> > Otherwise, the exact steps you mentioned reproduce this for me on 27.2
>
> Ah, yes, with that setting I can reproduce the problem. This is now
> fixed in Emacs 28.
Hmm... you replaced expand-file-name with directory-append, but what
if there's a real "~" in the arguments, or some ".." etc. stuff? That
would now wind up in the trash info, no?
Wouldn't it be better to quote "~" when it's a literal file name?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-24 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-23 15:03 bug#49711: 27.2; Deleting a directory called ~ deletes home directory Al Haji-Ali
2021-07-23 16:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-23 17:08 ` Al Haji-Ali
2021-07-24 11:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-24 12:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-07-24 12:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-24 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-24 14:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <b5a28a7b-8705-41b1-8b48-4b042569b387@Spark>
2021-07-24 15:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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