wjc@hoswjc.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) (09/17/89)
[GNUemacs 18.55 on sun4, sunOS 4.0.3c] As unlikely as this seems, I came across a file that had accidentally been created with a leading tilde in its name. When I tried to visit it in GNUemacs, I got a message like this: "~foo" is not a registered user I believe that this ultimately comes from "expand-file-name", which is called by a ton of other file-manipulation functions. This behavior seems right for filename completion use, but in a few minutes of fiddling around, I couldn't find a way to visit the file at all, so something is probably needed here. Perhaps a good solution would be to make "expand-file-name" give the error if being used interactively, but treat the tilde literally in non-interactive use. Or, give the error and then drive on taking things literally in interactive mode. -- Bill Carpenter att!ho5cad!wjc or attmail!bill
jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) (09/20/89)
In article <WJC.89Sep16183751@hoswjc.hoswjc.ATT.COM> wjc@hoswjc.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) writes:
[GNUemacs 18.55 on sun4, sunOS 4.0.3c]
As unlikely as this seems, I came across a file that had accidentally
been created with a leading tilde in its name. When I tried to visit
it in GNUemacs, I got a message like this:
"~foo" is not a registered user
I think the best solution to this is to let ~~ represent a single tilde
character, similar to the way $$ is used for a single dollar sign.
Perhaps the ~ expansion code should be moved into substitute-in-file-name,
along with the environment variable expansion code. I have always felt
that ~ expansion should only occur in interactively read filenames, and
this would accomplish that.
--
Joe Wells <jbw@bucsf.bu.edu>
jbw%bucsf.bu.edu@bu-it.bu.edu
...!harvard!bu-cs!bucsf!jbwmike@octel.UUCP (Michael D. Crawford) (09/20/89)
In article <38487@bu-cs.BU.EDU> jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) writes: >I think the best solution to this is to let ~~ represent a single tilde >character, similar to the way $$ is used for a single dollar sign. >Perhaps the ~ expansion code should be moved into substitute-in-file-name, >along with the environment variable expansion code... Hear hear! >...I have always felt >that ~ expansion should only occur in interactively read filenames, and >this would accomplish that. > I beg to differ. I like to use the ~ expansion in my .emacs file: (load "~mike/lisp/my-files.el") As a consultant I get around to a lot of different machines, with different home directories, and I like to load my personal .emacs while I am running as root. I suppose it would not be to for my to work around it if non-interactive ~ expansion were taken out. >-- >Joe Wells <jbw@bucsf.bu.edu> >jbw%bucsf.bu.edu@bu-it.bu.edu >...!harvard!bu-cs!bucsf!jbw -- Michael David Crawford Consulting for: Oddball Enterprises Octel Communications Corp 694 Nobel Drive 890 Tasman Drive Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Milpitas CA 95035 uunet!apple!vsi1!octel!mike CI$ 72377,623 Ain't got no cache, ain't no file, ain't got no disk to make you smile, Don`t worry, be happy!