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Re: ~dir
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: ~dir |
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Sun, 03 Feb 2002 21:11:44 +0200 |
> From: Devon Sean McCullough <devon@ai.mit.edu>
> Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:17:21 -0500 (EST)
>
> 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
The manual explains in section "Quoted File Names" that you should
use "/:" before the file name to disable the usual magic meaning of
the leading `~' character.
The ~-expansion is a feature, of course.
- ~dir, Devon Sean McCullough, 2002/02/03
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- ~dir, Devon Sean McCullough, 2002/02/03