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: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 36490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, erik_hahn <at> gmx.de
Subject: bug#36490: 26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~"
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 19:58:18 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
>> Cc: erik_hahn <at> gmx.de,  36490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 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
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