bug#4592: Bug in built-in function substitute-in-file-name

[Mosur Mohan]

> What does
>  (find-file-name-handler "/~/" 'substitute-in-file-name)
> return?

In both Emacs sessions, it returns nil.
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Mohan

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Mosur Mohan <mognush@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> When I start up Emacs, I go to the *scratch* buffer and eval
>>     (substitute-in-file-name "/~/")
>> and I get the expected result
>>     "~/"
>>
>> 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:
>>     "/~/"
>>
>> I am not able to figure out what happened in between to make it stop
>> working correctly.
>
> What does
>  (find-file-name-handler "/~/" 'substitute-in-file-name)
> return?
>
> Andreas.
>
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