~dir

[Devon Sean McCullough]

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In GNU Emacs 20.3.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1, X toolkit)
 of Thu Mar 25 1999 on horsepower
configured using `configure  --with-x-toolkit=athena --with-pop --with-kerberos'

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Directory names beginning with ~ are broken.
One might claim such names are pathological,
all the more reason to handle them properly.
Emacs 21.1 also has this bug.

$ cd ~
$ echo ~root
/
$ echo ~x
~x
$ emacs-20.3 -q

Recent input:
ESC ! e c h o SPC ~ x RET
ESC x m a k e SPC d SPC RET DEL x RET
C-x d DEL x RET
g
C-x C-f y RET
ESC x p w d RET
ESC x r e p o r t SPC e m SPC b SPC RET

Recent messages:
Loading dired...
Loading dired...done
Reading directory /home/ai/devon/~x/...
Reading directory /home/ai/devon/~x/...done
Reading directory /home/ai/devon/~x/...
Reading directory /home/ai/devon/~x/...done
Use M-x make-dir RET RET to create the directory
Directory ~/~x/~x/
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