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Re: find-file and filename containing '~'


From: Heinz Rommerskirchen
Subject: Re: find-file and filename containing '~'
Date: 18 Nov 2005 10:35:30 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> >>>>> In <u3blubc1f.fsf@siemens.com> Heinz Rommerskirchen wrote:
> 
> > After a download with wget I got the file
> > ~/tmp/itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002654.html on my
> > hard disk. Trying to open this with find-file I didn't succeed because
> > of the '~' in the middle of the name. No way of escaping I cold think
> > of worked. I tried escaping with \ and C-Q, quoting with ' and " and,
> > as described in the info-file, /: in front of the whole filename and
> > inserted in the filename in front of the offending ~myl. Only by using
> > dired I could get at the file.
> 
snip
> 
> Try:
> 
> C-x C-f ~/tmp/itre.cis.upenn.edu/ RET
> C-x C-f ~/tmp/itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002654.html RET
> 
> This seems to have been fixed in Emacs 22.

This works, *if* I do not use completion in the minibuffer.
Thanks!

-- 
Regards

Heinz


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