Subject: bug#33255: 27.0.50; expand-file-name: default directory expanded twice if relative

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:11:00 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I agree that we should discourage relative $HOME, so I added text to
> the documentation to that effect.

I really think it would be better not to mention it at all.
I have never heard of it in many years of using Unix (I know this is an
awful kind of statement), and see no need for it. Again, the GNU Bash
manual says nothing about this.