GNU bug report logs - #36490
26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Erik Hahn <erik_hahn <at> gmx.de>

Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 18:09:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: confirmed, fixed

Found in version 26.1

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Erik Hahn <erik_hahn <at> gmx.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 36490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~"
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 23:30:38 +0200

On 08/07/19 23:08, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> The doc string continues with further confusion:
>
> ---
> See also the function ‘substitute-in-file-name’.
> ---
>
> See it for...  what?  For further expansions this function is going to
> do?

It is related in that it also chokes on files named "~":

(substitute-in-file-name "/tmp/~") => "~"

Its doc string is also wrong. It says

> If ‘/~’ appears, all of FILENAME through that ‘/’ is discarded.

but

(substitute-in-file-name "/tmp/~foo") => "/tmp/~foo"
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