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Completing ~ by itself does nothing. #192

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chrisant996 opened this issue Nov 3, 2021 · 2 comments
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Completing ~ by itself does nothing. #192

chrisant996 opened this issue Nov 3, 2021 · 2 comments
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chrisant996 commented Nov 3, 2021 •
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Since Clink already supports cd -, it seems reasonable to also support cd ~.

However, it isn't feasible to try to automatically do ~ expansion for other commands, or when invoking other programs. The best that Clink can offer is expanding ~ when using completion (e.g. Tab). Tilde completion works in general, but is currently broken in a few specific places. I'll fix those as well, so that tilde completion works everywhere again.

This was originally proposed in #191.
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@chrisant996 chrisant996 changed the title Request: support cd ~ to change to the user profile directory. Completing ~ by itself does nothing. Nov 4, 2021
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It turns out that it was intentional for completing ~ to do nothing, because in bash ~ and ~letters refer to user account names.

Referring to other user accounts doesn't seem to make a lot of sense in CMD on Windows, though.

So now completing ~ by itself inserts the %USERPROFILE% directory. This is a convenient way to expand tilde into a path that Windows understands.

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Addressed by edcefba.

cd ~Tab now expands the tilde to the %USERPROFILE% path.

(All of the completion commands can expand ~ by itself; complete, menu-complete, old-menu-complete, clink-select-complete, possible-completions, and so on.)

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