[gollem] relative paths

[kevin mcgowan]

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 04:42  PM, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> Can you say why you think the latter is more theoretically sound? In my
> experience, a ~ has to be at the beginning of a path to be
> processed/recognized correctly; I'm not sure why we'd want to process 
> them
> *inside* paths...

I agree with that completely, actually.  I think reaching into the 
middle of a path to find a tilde is pretty ridiculous/gross.  At the 
same time, though, I feel that getNativePath is the right place to do 
tilde expansion.  I'd be happy to change my mind on that if people who 
know the VFS stuff better disagree.

Perhaps the relative paths patch could not prepend current working 
directory if the argument to the change directory command begins with a 
tilde ( maybe based on a configuration option )?  This puts tilde 
expansion in the file backend without breaking relative paths ( unless, 
of course, someone has a relative path that is supposed to begin with 
an actual tilde ).

Kevin

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