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Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths


From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey
Subject: Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:09:26 +0930
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On Sunday,  9 April 2006 at 10:00:25 -0400, Larry Kollar wrote:
> Werner LEMBERG asked, perhaps rhetorically:
>
>> Why on earth do you expect tilde expansion
>> within groff?
>
> I'm used to it working in vi(m) and I seem to remember it working in
> awk. I've also seen it work in X11-based file dialogs. Over time, I
> suppose I've come to assume that ~ was a Un*x idiom rather than a
> shell idiom.

Agreed; why shouldn't it work in groff?  It should be relatively
straightforward to implement it (looks the other way).

Greg
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