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From: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
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Subject: Re: expand-file-name tilde problem
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Date: 19 Sep 89 23:52:42 GMT
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In-reply-to: wjc@hoswjc.ATT.COM's message of 16 Sep 89 17:37:51 GMT

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.

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Joe Wells <jbw@bucsf.bu.edu>
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