GNU bug report logs - #25183
26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:55:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.0.50

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Cc: michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, 25183 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 10:17:07 +0200

> From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
> Cc: 25183 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  michael.albinus <at> gmx.de
> 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.
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