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27.2; Deleting a directory called ~ deletes home directory

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Message #8 received at 49711 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 49711 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#49711: 27.2; Deleting a directory called ~ deletes home
 directory
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 18:07:51 +0200

Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com> writes:

> In dired, if I delete a directory called `~` (not related to home
> directory, I created this directory by mistake) and delete it, dired
> deletes the home directory instead.

I'm unable to reproduce this in Emacs 27.2 or 28.  Here's my test case:

touch '/tmp/~'
emacs -Q /tmp/

Then hit `D yes RET' on the ~ file.

That deletes /tmp/~ for me, and not the home directory.

Do you have a step-by-step recipe, starting from "emacs -Q" for how to
reproduce the problem you're seeing?

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