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Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey |
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Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths |
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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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- [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Larry Kollar, 2006/04/08
- RE: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Ted Harding, 2006/04/09
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/04/09
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Larry Kollar, 2006/04/09
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths,
Greg 'groggy' Lehey <=
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Miklos Somogyi, 2006/04/10
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/04/10
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2006/04/11
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Larry Kollar, 2006/04/11
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Miklos Somogyi, 2006/04/11
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2006/04/11
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/04/11
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Larry Kollar, 2006/04/10
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/04/10
- Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths, Keith Marshall, 2006/04/10