[PATCH] for review - Allow expansion of "~" (as opposed to "~user")

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Pete Williamson

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Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:06:02 -0800

I'm porting Emacs to run on NaCl (Chrome Native Client) and the Chromebook. (You can see slides about this in the FOSDEM 2015 archives).

The NaCl platform does not support expanding the "~user" syntax for filenames (where user is the name of the logged in user), but it does support expanding "~" in filenames when looking for the init.el file.

I've made a patch to startup.el to check in "~" for .emacs.d/init.el if it is not found in "~user". Is taking this patch a good idea? I'm not sure how much emacs should adapt to the platform, and how much should be done in a private patch that does not affect other platforms, and I would be grateful for any guidance.

Currently for the NaCl port, we have a patch in naclports which does OS specific fixes, and I can leave this patch in naclports if that is thought by others to be a better place, or I would be happy to contribute it back to Gnu if it is seen as generally useful.

All comments on the patch welcome.

Thanks!

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