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`read-file-name' problem

#87985
From: Gustavo Chaves
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 12:44
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Hi there!

I'm using `GNU Emacs 19.25.1 (sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3)'.

I got what I think is a wrong behaviour of the function
read-file-name.  What I did is the following:


$ echo ~
/home/apro/gustavo
$ emacs -q .emacs&

[then... inside emacs]

`M-ESC'	; invoking eval-expression
`y'	; answeting `yes' to enable the command
`(read-file-name "File: " "~apcc/OM/rda/" nil t ".rda")'

[then... the following appears in the minibuffer:

	 File: ~apcc/OM/rda/.rda
]

[then I hit RET and the following appears in the minibuffer:

	"/home/apro/gustavo/.emacs"

 which is the full name of the file being visited in the current buffer.
]


Now I suppose that, since ~apcc/OM/rda/.rda is an existing file, what
should appear is:

	"~apcc/OM/rda/.rda"

If instead of calling eval-expression in a buffer that is visiting a
file I call it in the *scratch* buffer, the result is the expected
one.

Am I missing something?

Thanks for the attention.

Gustavo.
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Subject: `read-file-name' problem
Date: 19 Aug 1994 08:44:49 -0400
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