Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!vsi1!octel!mike From: mike@octel.UUCP (Michael D. Crawford) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Re: expand-file-name tilde problem Message-ID: <41@octel.UUCP> Date: 20 Sep 89 16:41:20 GMT References: <38487@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Reply-To: mike@octel.UUCP (Mike Crawford) Distribution: gnu Organization: Octel Communications Corporation Lines: 41 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@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!