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25.2; eshell "cd .." doesn't work correctly with TRAMP

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: 26911 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>,
 Yegor Timoshenko <yegortimoshenko <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#26911: 25.2; eshell "cd .." doesn't work correctly with TRAMP
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:53:52 -0700

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On 8/27/20 11:31 AM, Mattias Engdegård wrote:
> No doubt the change (14fb657ba82) is fine in isolation, but now if Emacs is started from $HOME/somedir and I do find-file, the minibuffer prompt is "/home/mattias/somedir/" instead of "~/somedir/" which does not seem to be an improvement.
> 
> Worse, if cwd is $HOME, the minibuffer prompt becomes "~" instead of "~/" which is inconvenient since that slash has to be typed explicitly.

Thanks for reporting that. Sigh, too often when I fix one bug in 
expand-file-name I introduce another. I installed the attached patch to fix this 
bug (I and I hope it doesn't introduce yet another :-).

[0001-Fix-recently-introduced-expand-file-name-bug.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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