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bug#20205: 24.4; lgrep will not accept a directory of ~ to search; probl
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#20205: 24.4; lgrep will not accept a directory of ~ to search; problem with read-file-name? |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:31:38 +0200 |
> From: Mark Lillibridge <mdl@foil.strangled.net>
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:58:30 -0700
>
>
> (found also in Emacs 24.3, not in 24.2)
>
> Recipe:
> emacs -q
>
> M-x lgrep enter
> target enter
> enter
> <edit mini-buffer to get ~; I had to backspace once then hit ~>
> enter
>
> when you hit the last enter, Emacs gives you a completion buffer and
> refuses to accept "~" as a valid directory to search. "~/" does work,
> however.
It's a feature: "~" gets completed to "~USER" where USER are the users
known by the system.