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Tilde expansion in fields in .linesrc (and probably other places) does not work.
This is unexpected and confusing and should be fixed.
(See LINES-L on 2020-04-05 for an example.)
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I suspect "unexpected" is a generational thing. Traditionally, tilde expansion is done by the shell on Unix systems and basic C programs don't understand the concept.
As an aside, some (all?) implementations of libc's wordexp actually invoke /bin/sh in a subprocess to get this expansion done, so not super fast.
Tilde expansion in fields in .linesrc (and probably other places) does not work.
This is unexpected and confusing and should be fixed.
(See LINES-L on 2020-04-05 for an example.)
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: