Re: [Bug: 21.4.6] XEmacs tilde interpretation

Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: >But the example you comment as WRONG is exactly the behavior >documented in the substitute-in-file-name docstring in 21.5-b16: > > If `/~' appears, all of FILENAME through that `/' is discarded. > >Are you sure this is wrong? > > [...] >I am not sure what we are seing is a bug unless the docstring is >alos a bug. > > But that's the point, isn't it? Yes, substitute-in-file-name behaves as documented, but I'm not convinced that such behavior is correct. It certainly can't be right that you cannot find a file whose name happens to begin with a tilde! Maybe someone should ask the FSF maintainers what's their position on this. Changing the behavior of substitute-in-file-name (or, for that matter, read-file-name) is not something that should be done lightly. >expand-file-name explicitely refers to substitute-in-file-name. > > Yes, but expand-file-name only expands *initial* "~/" and "~username/", which is much better.