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bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:08:37 -0500
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

Noam Postavsky wrote:

>>>> (expand-file-name "/:~/path/./file")
>>>> => "/:~/path/file"
>
>>>> (expand-file-name "/:~/path/./file")
>>>> => "/:c:/Users/lb01177/AppData/Roaming/path/file"
>
>>
>> (file-name-absolute-p "/:~/path/./file")
>> => t
>
> I think all these cases are user error, `(emacs) Quoted File Names' says
>
>     You can "quote" an absolute file name [...] add '/:' at the beginning
>
> But you cannot quote a relative file name, which looks like what
> you're trying to do here. It might better to throw an error than
> return nonsense (though possibly not worth the trouble).

But "~/blah" is an absolute file name. ?





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