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Tilde-expansion in --long-options=

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Message #23 received at 40977 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 40977 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel <at> crazy-compilers.com>,
 zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#40977: --load-path does not honor ~
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:53:05 -0400

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 07:34:39PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> UNIX has its warts, and this is a well-known one (use ${HOME} instead).
> 
> If we did expanduser, I'm sure we'd be seeing bug reports about paths where
> there was a tilde in the actual file name, NOT as a expanduser mark.
> 
> UNIX tools do what they do, and this wart is here to stay in a lot of tools.
> Then at least make it consistent across all the tools UNIX has.

If it's true that this behaviour is more or less consistent in UNIX /
POSIX, then I agree with Danny that we should leave it as is. And, I
have noticed that ${HOME} is the way to go.

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