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24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 13033 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:42:14 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:08:57 -0500
> Cc: 13033 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> >> > And there is no such directory ~dradams either.
> >> Actually, there should be (in the same sense that there is a directory
> >> named ~, i.e. it's a shorthand expanded by Emacs, more specifically by
> >> `expand-file-name').
> >> What does C-x C-f ~dradams/.emacs RET do?  It should open 
> >> your ~/.emacs file.
> > It does.  Now.  But it does not in older releases.
> 
> It's done so under posix "for ever".

And it's done so on Windows forever as well.

> > That's OK for an Emacs convention.  I just was not aware of it.  (And for MS
> > Windows itself there is still no association between HOME and the user login
> > name, AFAIK.  This is an Emacs-only convention.  Nothing wrong with that,
> > obviously.)
> 
> Right, I'll let Windows users figure out whether it's useful or not.

They (Windows users) already did.

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