Re: ~dir

[David desJardins]

Devon Sean McCullough <devon@ai.mit.edu> writes:
>> 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.

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> 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.

It seems to me that you didn't understand the bug report.  The bug is
that creating the file "~/~x/y" doesn't work *even if* there is no user
"x" and so "~x" has no special meaning.

Note that these all work correctly:

  /~x
  ~/~x
  ~/~x/

Also, it's possible to visit the file

  ~/~x/y

*if* it already exists.  However, visiting the file won't create it if
it doesn't already exist.

This seems obviously a bug to me.

                                        David desJardins