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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs syntax for filenames to mean "absolute location on the current remote host"?
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2023 13:20:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8csq0s9.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8a48f0e3-9fef-1718-5e87-267f78abf2ab@gmail.com> (Jim Porter's message of "Fri, 1 Sep 2023 12:23:14 -0700")

Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Jim,

>> I think the first thing I'll do then is to try and understand
>> *exactly* how quoted file names work, and then update the manual to
>> clarify this. Once I know exactly how they work, it should be easier
>> to be sure that I won't mess anything up with these Eshell
>> improvements.
>
> Hmm, it turns out the behavior of quoted file names is inconsistent
> here. "C-x C-f /:~ RET" opens dired for the user's home dir on
> GNU/Linux, but opens a buffer for a new file named tilde on
> MS-Windows. I've filed bug#65685 for this.

Will check next days. I guess nobody has taken a closer look to quoted
file names and tilde expansion yet, and there are no respective test
cases in files-tests.el.

Best regards, Michael.



      reply	other threads:[~2023-09-02 11:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-29  3:51 Emacs syntax for filenames to mean "absolute location on the current remote host"? Jim Porter
2023-08-29  7:30 ` Michael Albinus
2023-08-29 11:57   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-30  5:07   ` Jim Porter
2023-08-31 13:58     ` Michael Albinus
2023-09-01 17:36       ` Jim Porter
2023-09-01 18:13         ` Michael Albinus
2023-09-01 18:36           ` Jim Porter
2023-09-01 19:23             ` Jim Porter
2023-09-02 11:20               ` Michael Albinus [this message]

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