Subject: Re: bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 10:17:07 +0200

> From: [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 13:51:14 -0500
> 
> For reference, on a GNU system, doing
> 
> $ echo xx > '~'
> $ emacs -Q '/:~'
> 
> opens up the $HOME directory, even though the "~" is not expanded by
> `expand-file-name'.

On MS-Windows, after I pushed my changes, the above opens the file
'~', not the home directory.  Not sure if we care, since we in effect
decided that this invokes undefined behavior.