Re: ~dir

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Devon Sean McCullough wrote:

> In GNU Emacs 19.34.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1, X toolkit) of Tue Jan 14 1997 
> on tarkin
> Also in Emacs 21.1
> 
> Two demos clarify bug:
> [Note ~foo~/~foo~
>  and ~dir~/~dir~ below]
> 
> $ emacs -q
> C-x d / t m p RET
> + ~ f o o ~ RET
> RET
> + b a r RET
> make-directory: Creating directory: no such file or directory, 
> /tmp/~foo~/~foo~/bar
> 
> $ cat bugdemo.el
> (let ((debug-on-error t))
>   (shell-command "echo shell expands to: ~dir~ ~file~")
>   (make-directory "./~dir~")
>   (cd "./~dir~")
>   (find-file "./~file~"))
> $ emacs -q -l bugdemo.el
> Signaling: (error "Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size")

In Emacs 21.1, I can reproduce the first problem, but not the second.  I 
wonder what's different between my system and yours.  Are you sure that 
both problems exist in Emacs 21.1?