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bug#4592: Bug in built-in function substitute-in-file-name
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
bug#4592: Bug in built-in function substitute-in-file-name |
Date: |
Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:15:27 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Mosur Mohan wrote:
> I am running Emacs version 21.3 on a Linux x86_64 machine.
[...]
> After running for a while, I notice that filename completion starts
> giving errors. At this point, I re-try the above experiment:
> (substitute-in-file-name "/~/")
> But now, I get:
> "/~/"
Unfortunately, this seems a rather obscure problem, and Emacs 21 is
quite old, so you are unlikely to get much help unless you can give a
simple recipe showing how to get into this state (starting from emacs
-q --no-site-file). In any case, I would recommend upgrading to Emacs 23.
- bug#4592: Bug in built-in function substitute-in-file-name,
Glenn Morris <=