Subject: Re: bug#75983: project error with file-name-directory "~" returning nil

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 04:49:46 +0200

Hi!

On 01/02/2025 13:04, Ship Mints wrote:
> Dmitry, I think the following patch to project--write-project-list might 
> suffice to avoid this in the future:
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/project.el b/lisp/progmodes/project.el
> index f2a27ff91dd..f9b3b8891bc 100644
> --- a/lisp/progmodes/project.el
> +++ b/lisp/progmodes/project.el
> @@ -1824,7 +1824,7 @@ project--read-project-list
>                  (lambda (elem)
>                    (let ((name (car elem)))
>                      (list (if (file-remote-p name) name
> -                           (abbreviate-file-name name)))))
> +                           (file-name-as-directory (abbreviate-file- 
> name name))))))
>                  (condition-case nil
>                      (read (current-buffer))
>                    (end-of-file

Yeah, this is a decent solution, thanks.

Any idea though, how an entry without a trailing "/" got into that file? 
Written by some older version of project.el?