bug#17950: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `read-file-name' from a menu (mouse) treats "~/" as installation dir

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 08:10:35 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 17950@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I added `M-x debug-on-entry read-file-name' to the recipe, and went
> through the debugger after invoking from menu FOOOO.  E.g.:
> 
> * x-file-dialog("Foo: " "~/" nil nil nil)
> * read-file-name-default("Foo: " "~/" nil nil nil nil)
> * read-file-name("Foo: " "~/")
> 
> When I hit `d' on `x-file-dialog' the file-selection box is popped
> up with the incorrect directory in field `Look in:'.

So you are saying that x-file-dialog is called with the correct
directory "~/", and yet the file selection dialog still shows another
directory, is that right?