From abd5b7f2f035085b56f31baa02796701c53d0401 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 22:17:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (Fread_file_name): Expand DIR if not absolute.

---
 src/fileio.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/fileio.c b/src/fileio.c
index 8696946eb8a..5c073433c75 100644
--- a/src/fileio.c
+++ b/src/fileio.c
@@ -6198,10 +6198,13 @@ provides a file dialog box.  */)
 
   if (NILP (dir))
     dir = current_buffer->directory;
+  if (NILP (Ffile_name_absolute_p (dir)))
+    dir = Fexpand_file_name (dir, Qnil);
   if (NILP (default_filename))
-    default_filename = !NILP (initial)
-      ? Fexpand_file_name (initial, dir)
-      : current_buffer->filename;
+    default_filename
+      = (!NILP (initial)
+	 ? Fexpand_file_name (initial, dir)
+	 : current_buffer->filename);
 
   /* If dir starts with user's homedir, change that to ~. */
   homedir = (char *) egetenv ("HOME");
-- 
2.39.5