Subject: Re: bug#45257: 27.1; ido-find-file incorrectly handles directory names beginning with tilde(~)

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2021 12:28:30 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Expected behavior:
>> See "Find file: /tmp/ido/~example/test [No match]" in Minibuffer
>> 
>> Observed behavior:
>> See "~/~example/test [No match]" in Minibuffer
>
> You need to quote such special file names, using "/:".

So I think this works basically as designed, and I'm closing this bug
report.  

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