Subject: bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~"

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 19:58:18 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
>> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 17:50:49 +0200
>> 
>> > If you want "~" to be interpreted literally, you need to protect it
>> > with "/:".
>> 
>> Sorry; I don't quite follow you here.  The doc string says that "~/" is
>> interpreted specially.  There's no "/" in "~".  :-)
>
> But it does NOT say that "~" will NOT be interpreted specially.

Indeed it explicitly says that "~" will be interpreted specially:

  Second arg DEFAULT-DIRECTORY is directory to start with if NAME is
  relative (does not start with slash or tilde); both the directory name
  and a directory's file name are accepted.

So AIUI (expand-file-name "~") should be equivalent to
(directory-file-name (expand-file-name "~/")).

-- 
Basil