Subject: Re: bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2012 09:46:29 +0200

> From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:09:26 -0800
> 
> > Emacs on Windows supports ~USER only when USER is the current user.
> 
> Yes, that's what the doc says.  But until now, Emacs did not support expansion
> of ~USER.  It supported only "expansion" of ~USER/.

You mean, 'M-: (expand-file-name "~dradams") RET' doesn't work for you
in any previous releases?  It does for me (with my username instead of
dradams) at least since 21.4.  It expands to my home directory.

If that is not what you mean, then what "expansion" are you talking
about?