> From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 07:57:26 +0000 > Cc: Hans-Bernhard Bröker <[email protected]>, > Texinfo <[email protected]> > > > Most probably this feature is there to emulate Emacs. > > > >> Tilde expansion is done by the shell so there's no need for Info to > >> do it as well. > > > > ??? When I type "C-x C-f" in Info, no shell will help me expand the > > tilde in the file name I type after that. Likewise if I want to > > specify a file name in the argument given to the 'g' command. > > Ah, I see. I had never thought that anyone would do that. Do you think > it is an important feature?
I don't know how important is it. Probably not terribly important. But it's a very old feature, so I think we shouldn't remove it without a very good reason. > I thought it might be for the contents of the INFOPATH environment > variable, but this is expanded when defined, at least it is in bash > when I checked. There could be a (rare) use case where INFOPATH is set by a program other than a shell.
