Home directory behavior

[sachdevaprash]

This is a subtle difference in the way Swiper deals with the home directory. The home directory seems to be accessible with pressing ~, so C-x C-f ~.emacs would open the .emacs file in the home directory. This behavior is incompatible with the default emacs find-file behavior of using ~/ for home directory. This leads to unfamiliar behavior, such as pressing C-x C-f ~/.emacs when in home directory and finding that you have reached file /.emacs

[abo-abo]

The defaults aren't perfection, there's always room for improvement.

I think the ability to cd to home with only rather than / is an enhancement rather than regression.

[sachdevaprash]

Let me elaborate on my point and then you can choose to ignore it if you still like.

Typing C-x C-f ~/.emacs produces the text ~//.emacs in the minibuffer. In most terminals (I checked bash, zsh and eshell), ~//.emacs corresponds to ~/.emacs, but counsel-find-file opens /.emacs.

[UnwashedMeme]

@sachdevaprash I came across this as well, there's a pull-request and code you can copy in if you want at #687 we've been unable to come up with any good way to integrate this without breaking existing behavior.

[sachdevaprash]

@UnwashedMeme That seems like what I need. Thanks!
Can't this behavior be based on a variable to decide how ~ functions?

[abo-abo]

Now you can set the variable to get the behavior that you want.