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Re: visiting "~/Application Data" gets "~" instead


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: visiting "~/Application Data" gets "~" instead
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:58:23 +0300

> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  Eric Hanchrow <address@hidden>,
>         address@hidden
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:43:02 -0400
> 
> > find-file-noselect calls (abbreviate-file-name (expand-file-name FILE)),
> > where expand-file-name is implemented in C and uses egetenv("HOME") to
> > expand "~", while abbreviate-file-name compares against lisp variable
> > abbreviated-home-dir, so if HOME is changed from inside Emacs, these two
> > functions are not going to be consistent with each other. This doesn't
> > explain the above by itself, but I'm sure if you dived deeper you would find
> > the explanation.
> 
> That sounds credible, although it may be completely unrelated.
> E.g. I can't reproduce the problem on my GNU/Linux machine.

What do you get on GNU/Linux?  Please post as many details as you can;
there might be a Windows-specific bug here, but I cannot even begin to
think about where it could be, given what you told.




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