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27.1; ido-find-file incorrectly handles directory names beginning with tilde(~)

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From: <benthor <at> posteo.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 27.1; ido-find-file incorrectly handles directory names beginning
 with tilde(~)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:21:05 +0100

Steps to reproduce:
mkdir -p /tmp/ido/~example/
emacs -Q
M-x ido-mode
C-x C-f //tmp/ido/~example/test

Expected behavior:
See "Find file: /tmp/ido/~example/test [No match]" in Minibuffer

Observed behavior:
See "~/~example/test [No match]" in Minibuffer


In GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 
3.24.22, cairo version 1.17.3)
of 2020-08-28 built on juergen
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Message #8 received at 45257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: <benthor <at> posteo.de>
Cc: 45257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45257: 27.1;
 ido-find-file incorrectly handles directory names beginning with
 tilde(~)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:26:21 +0200

> From: <benthor <at> posteo.de>
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:21:05 +0100
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> mkdir -p /tmp/ido/~example/
> emacs -Q
> M-x ido-mode
> C-x C-f //tmp/ido/~example/test
> 
> Expected behavior:
> See "Find file: /tmp/ido/~example/test [No match]" in Minibuffer
> 
> Observed behavior:
> See "~/~example/test [No match]" in Minibuffer

You need to quote such special file names, using "/:".

Message #13 received at 45257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: benthor <at> posteo.de, 45257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45257: 27.1; ido-find-file incorrectly handles directory
 names beginning with tilde(~)
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2021 12:28:30 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Expected behavior:
>> See "Find file: /tmp/ido/~example/test [No match]" in Minibuffer
>> 
>> Observed behavior:
>> See "~/~example/test [No match]" in Minibuffer
>
> You need to quote such special file names, using "/:".

So I think this works basically as designed, and I'm closing this bug
report.  

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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