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bug#20205: 24.4; lgrep will not accept a directory of ~ to search; probl
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Stefan Kangas |
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bug#20205: 24.4; lgrep will not accept a directory of ~ to search; problem with read-file-name? |
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Mon, 30 Sep 2019 02:41:54 +0200 |
tags 20205 + notabug
close 20205
quit
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> (found also in Emacs 24.3, not in 24.2)
>>
>> Recipe:
>> emacs -q
>>
>> M-x lgrep enter
>> target enter
>> enter
>> <edit mini-buffer to get ~; I had to backspace once then hit ~>
>> enter
>>
>> when you hit the last enter, Emacs gives you a completion buffer and
>> refuses to accept "~" as a valid directory to search. "~/" does work,
>> however.
>
> It's a feature: "~" gets completed to "~USER" where USER are the users
> known by the system.
With the above explanation, I'm closing this as notabug.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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