Path error when using edit with ~ in Windows PowerShell (Error 0x80070003)

[Diluka]

Describe the bug
When trying to execute:

PS C:\Users\Diluka> edit ~/.claude/settings.json
Error 0x80070003: 绯荤粺鎵句笉鍒版寚瀹氱殑璺緞銆?

The command fails with error code 0x80070003, and the error message is garbled.

Expected behavior

• The path ~ should be correctly resolved to the user's home directory.
• Error messages should be readable in English or Chinese, not garbled.

To Reproduce

1. Open Windows PowerShell.
2. Run the command above.
3. Observe the error output.

[lhecker]

Error messages should be readable in English or Chinese, not garbled.

This was fixed recently by #639 and is pending release. (I currently don't have time to work on edit, so it'll take some time.)

[DHowett]

~ expansion is a feature of the shell. The upside is that on platforms where that is common, every application doesn't have to implement it themselves. The downside is that Windows is not one of those platforms.

We will not be adding any special handling for certain types of path characters. Sorry.

[lhecker]

The path ~ should be correctly resolved to the user's home directory.

This happens because PowerShell passes the "~" as an argument straight to us. Under Linux, the shell would take care to replace the "~" with the home directory path. You can work around this by pressing Tab once at the end of the path argument.

I believe the only way we can fix this is by adding a _edit.ps1 file. PowerShell should pick it up and use it to figure out that the argument is a path argument.

Edit: Ah, we responded at the same time haha.

[lhecker]

Oh, I found it! Run the following command once in PowerShell 7.5 or later:

Enable-ExperimentalFeature PSNativeWindowsTildeExpansion

Then restart PowerShell and it should work. This confirms that this should be a shell feature IMO. 🙂