Re: are there any patches which add ~ expansion to rc

["Mark K. Gardner" <mkgardne@cs.uiuc.edu>]

Joe,

A while ago I hacked rc to add ~ expansion. (It was a real kludge.)
However, after thinking about it more I decided that expansion really
belongs in readline/editline. So I modified readline v2.1 to support
it. I then had to make a relatively minor change to rc to initialize
readline properly and to perform expansion.

[Caveat: I decided not to use ~ because of its obvious conflict with
pattern matching in rc. Instead I used % which seems to be free. It
would have been better if the final expansion was done in readline,
but it appeared that readline would be too easy to break.]

The modification works fine. I have to remember to use ~ instead of %
in emacs though! The patch is too long to post and is of (perhaps)
limited interest so I will email it to you directly.

Mark

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Mark K. Gardner (mkgardne@cs.uiuc.edu)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Real-Time Systems Laboratory
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