From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 25183@debbugs.gnu.org, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Subject: bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:33:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvg0d33x.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fia8c0bppm.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:08:37 -0500")
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> Noam Postavsky wrote:
>
>>>>> (expand-file-name "/:~/path/./file")
>>>>> => "/:~/path/file"
>>
>>>>> (expand-file-name "/:~/path/./file")
>>>>> => "/:c:/Users/lb01177/AppData/Roaming/path/file"
>>
>>>
>>> (file-name-absolute-p "/:~/path/./file")
>>> => t
>>
>> I think all these cases are user error, `(emacs) Quoted File Names' says
>>
>> You can "quote" an absolute file name [...] add '/:' at the beginning
>>
>> But you cannot quote a relative file name, which looks like what
>> you're trying to do here. It might better to throw an error than
>> return nonsense (though possibly not worth the trouble).
>
> But "~/blah" is an absolute file name. ?
Yes, but in "/:~/blah", the /: should prevent expanding "~", so then it
seems not to refer to an absolute file name, but rather a file named
"blah" in a directory named literally "~". But if it's not an absolute
file name, then /: doesn't make sense. So it's a kind of paradox. This
is not w32 specific (although the actual implementation happens to
resolve the "paradox" in a different way on w32).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-13 1:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-12 15:54 bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32 Michael Albinus
2016-12-12 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-12 16:54 ` Michael Albinus
2016-12-12 18:11 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-12 18:17 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-13 0:39 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-12-13 1:08 ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-13 1:10 ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-13 1:33 ` npostavs [this message]
2016-12-13 8:30 ` Michael Albinus
2016-12-13 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-24 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-24 13:57 ` npostavs
2016-12-24 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-24 17:43 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-12-24 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-24 18:51 ` npostavs
2016-12-27 8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-25 11:31 ` Michael Albinus
2016-12-26 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-26 16:19 ` Michael Albinus
2016-12-27 8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-27 9:56 ` Michael Albinus
2017-01-27 9:51 ` Michael Albinus
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