Douglas,
I "like" the idea that one can customize their computer to do whatever.
However, you have the problem:
what happens when you have to use someone else's computer. Most likely
they will have bash as the default shell, and ~ will work in the way you
dislike
When someone else uses your computer - they will complain that the ~
symbol don't work.
I would have thought that using \~ will get most circumstances.
Derek.
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On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Douglas Royds wrote:
> It has irritated me for some time that Bash was expanding ~ (my home directory
> path). For instance, if I type:
>
> $ ls ~/Doc <Tab>
>
> Bash would expand the path to:
>
> $ ls /home/roydsd/Documents
>
> This is a matter of personal taste, but I'd prefer the tilde to remain,
> thanks.
>
> I've found the culprit in /etc/bash_completion. Find the function _expand(),
> and edit it as follows:
>
> # This function expands tildes in pathnames
> #
> _expand()
> {
> [ "$cur" != "${cur%\\}" ] && cur="$cur\\"
>
> # expand ~username type directory specifications
> if [[ "$cur" == \~*/* ]]; then
> #eval cur=$cur <-------- Commented out
> return # <-------- Added
>
> elif [[ "$cur" == \~* ]]; then
> #cur=${cur#\~} <-------- Commented out
> #COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -P '~' -u $cur ) ) <--------
> Commented out
> #return [EMAIL PROTECTED] <-------- Commented out
> return # <-------- Added
> fi
> }
>
> Douglas.
>
>
>
>
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