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Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey |
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Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths |
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Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:38:26 +0930 |
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On Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 0:51:07 +0100, Keith Marshall wrote:
> On Monday 10 April 2006 11:19 pm, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>> > I'm used to it working in vi(m) and I seem to remember it working
>>> > in awk. I've also seen it work in X11-based file dialogs. Over
>>> > time, I suppose I've come to assume that ~ was a Un*x idiom rather
>>> > than a shell idiom.
>>>
>>> Agreed; why shouldn't it work in groff? It should be relatively
>>> straightforward to implement it (looks the other way).
>>
>> Consider this:
>>
>> .tr ~X
>> .so ~/foo/bar
>
> And you might also consider this, in the bash *shell*:
>
> $ dir='~'
> $ ls $dir
> ls: ~: No such file or directory
Arguably that's a bug in bash.
Greg
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- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Miklos Somogyi, 2006/04/10
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/04/10
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2006/04/11
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Larry Kollar, 2006/04/11
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Miklos Somogyi, 2006/04/11
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2006/04/11
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/04/11
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Larry Kollar, 2006/04/10
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/04/10
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Keith Marshall, 2006/04/10
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths,
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- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Keith Marshall, 2006/04/11