GNU bug report logs - #66534
30.0.50; [PATCH] Expand file-name of ~/.emacs before attempt to load it

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Christoph via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
 editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 66534 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Christoph <just.mychris <at> googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#66534: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Expand file-name of ~/.emacs before
 attempt to load it
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2023 09:25:50 +0200

On Okt 13 2023, Christoph via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" wrote:

> I noticed that during startup, emacs tries to load ~/.emacs (with
> different extensions) many times over.  You can see this by using
> strace and tracing the openat syscall.  The problem is, that `load'
> does not expand the ~/ in the filename passed to it.  So it does not
> recognize the file as being absolute and tries to resolve it using
> the load-path.

That's probably a bug in complete_filename_p.

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