Subject: bug#11385: 24.0.96; `image-dired-create-thumb': (file-error "Setting current directory" "no such file or directory" "$HOME/")

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 22:04:19 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> I think $HOME is not generally recognized in file names.  Only a few
> select functions know about it (substitute-in-file-name and
> expand-file-name come to mind).

Only substitute-in-file-name expands references to environment
variables.

Andreas.

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