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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