GNU bug report logs - #17950
24.4.50; REGRESSION: `read-file-name' from a menu (mouse) treats "~/" as installation dir

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Message #26 received at 17950 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 17950 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#17950: 24.4.50;	REGRESSION: `read-file-name' from a menu
 (mouse) treats "~/" as	installation dir
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 15:57:30 -0700 (PDT)

> > * x-file-dialog("Foo: " "~/" nil nil nil)
> > * read-file-name-default("Foo: " "~/" nil nil nil nil)
> > * read-file-name("Foo: " "~/")
> >
> > When I hit `d' on `x-file-dialog' the file-selection box is popped
> > up with the incorrect directory in field `Look in:'.
> 
> So you are saying that x-file-dialog is called with the correct
> directory "~/", and yet the file selection dialog still shows another
> directory, is that right?

Apparently so.  As soon as I hit `d', at the point shown above, the
file-selection box popped up, with the wrong directory.

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