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bug#30724: eshell: escaped tilde is not treated as such
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From: |
Noam Postavsky |
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Subject: |
bug#30724: eshell: escaped tilde is not treated as such |
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Date: |
Thu, 08 Mar 2018 20:15:16 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
tags 30724 + confirmed
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Yegor Timoshenko <yegortimoshenko@riseup.net> writes:
> In M-x eshell (do not run):
>
> $ touch \~
> $ ls
> ~
> $ rm \~
> rm: cannot remove '~': Is a directory
>
> I.e. it tried to remove home directory. I've found this by
> accidentially wiping my home directory, but no worry, I've restored a
> btrfs snapshot that was made several minutes before that.
>
> GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.26)
> of 2018-02-25
Stepping through eshell/rm a bit, I see it gets #("~" 0 1 (escaped t))
as an argument. So each command is responsible for handling the
escaping correctly. I think every file-handling eshell function needs
review for this.