From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, michael.albinus@gmx.de, 28156@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:38:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h8x2ckqn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkStL43w7AorvAk_=6b=vWRqA=pb89qAo8nuyNfSFJbhYA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Philipp Stephani on Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:09:01 +0000)
> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:09:01 +0000
> Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, 28156@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> It makes it impossible to use '~' as a directory name. Higher-level interactive interfaces such as Shell and
> Dired can live with such a restriction, but library APIs need to be able to work with arbitrary inputs.
We have quoting for these cases.
> Callers of `make-symbolic-link' will need to expand the target themselves.
make-symbolic-link is an interactive command, not just a function.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-20 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-20 10:28 bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 13:48 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 15:09 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-08-20 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-08-20 17:54 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 18:28 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 18:53 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 19:15 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 21:47 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21 7:36 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 21:31 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21 2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 8:34 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 15:58 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 17:34 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 20:30 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-22 7:28 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-22 16:03 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-24 11:38 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-25 5:12 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-25 12:45 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-26 13:16 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-27 1:53 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 22:19 ` npostavs
2017-08-20 23:00 ` Paul Eggert
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