It looks like there is a simple fix. This hasn't had hardly any testing,
but on the surface it's doing the right thing. The little example that
failed in an earlier post created the right directories.
In *leoCommands.py*, in the method *expand_path_expression(self, s)*, add
the line marked below
val = ''.join(aList)
*val = os.path.expanduser(val) # <===== Add this line*
if g.isWindows:
val = val.replace('\\', '/')
return val
@n00b, if you know how to find Leo's python code files, would you make this
change and see if it works for you? They would be in the
*Lib/sitepackages/leo* directory for the python executable you are using.
There may be more than one *sitepackages *directory. You can locate them
this way:
import site
print(site.getsitepackages())
On Friday, April 9, 2021 at 9:36:55 PM UTC-4 TEK42 wrote:
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> *import osg.cls() # <-- does nothing on macos (darwin), probably same with
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> <http://g.es/>(os.path.expanduser('~'))# --> /Users/leodudeg.es
> <http://g.es/>(os.environ["HOME"])# --> /Users/leodudeg.es
> <http://g.es/>(c.expand_path_expression('~'))# --> ~g.es
> <http://g.es/>(c.expand_path_expression('$HOME'))# --> $HOME*
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> It looks like there is opportunity to bring Leo into better usability with
> Linux-ey OS’s.
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> Depending on how much I end up using Leo (I already spent more time in Leo
> than in emacs org-mode this week), I may be up for contributing towards
> that end - at least for macos.
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> Subject to correction by Edward or some else who knows more, it looks like
>> the place to intervene is in c.expand_path_expression() because on even
>> on Linux it returns this:
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>> >>> c.expand_path_expression('~')
>> '~'
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>> This method is in the class *Commands*. I'm not sure how tricky this
>> would be to adjust, because you would only want to substitute
>> */home/{user}* for "~" if it appears at the start of a path expression,
>> and I don't know yet how to know. Also, it needs to be checked if a change
>> here would cause troubles anywhere else.
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