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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: immerrr again <immerrr <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 10:56:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Fixed in version 27.0.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #34 received at 33255 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 33255 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, immerrr <at> gmail.com,
 npostavs <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#33255: 27.0.50;
 expand-file-name: default directory expanded twice if relative
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.
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