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Allow tilde expansion for fields in .linesrc #394

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memmerto opened this issue Apr 6, 2020 · 1 comment
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Allow tilde expansion for fields in .linesrc #394

memmerto opened this issue Apr 6, 2020 · 1 comment
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@memmerto
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memmerto commented Apr 6, 2020

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.

@memmerto memmerto added the Area:Config Issues with the LifeLines config files label Sep 19, 2021
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