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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 24.0.96

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #28 received at 11385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: cyd <at> gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>,
	11385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11385: 24.0.96;
	`image-dired-create-thumb': (file-error "Setting current
	directory"	"no such file or directory" "$HOME/")
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 15:20:30 -0400

> 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 performs expansion of env-vars.  IIRC the
function `load' also calls substitute-in-file-name, but otherwise
substitute-in-file-name is only applied to file names typed in
the minibuffer.


        Stefan
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