[Bug: 21.5-b27] read-file-name in XEmacs/Win32

[Vin Shelton]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Marcus Harnisch
<marcus.harnisch at gmx.net> wrote:
> ================================================================
>  Dear Bug Team!
>
>  Trying to save MIME data from Gnus uses the wrong default directory. I
>  set mm-default directory to "~/Downloads/" (also tried
>  "~\\Downloads\\" without success)
>
>  Debugging revealed that the correct directory name has been passed to
>  `read-file-name' but the function seems to ignore that. I always get
>  whatever "~" expands to, no matter what.
>
>  I do *not* see that issue in my "XEmacs 21.5  (beta28) "fuki" (+CVS-20070829) [Lucid] (x86_64-unknown-linux, Mule) of Thu Aug 30 2007 on dipsy"
>
>  The changelog doesn't indicate any changes in that respect.

Interesting.  Here's a shot in the dark: What is the value of ~, i.e.
$HOME?  Does the value contain spaces?

  - Vin