~ == $home

[Stefan Axelsson <d7stfax@dtek.chalmers.se>]

Hmm, I missed the beginning of this thread, but I've avoided missing ~
== home by using cdpath, and the variable expansion feature of
editline.

1) Our usernames are very regular (d7stfax, aso) and thus are well suited
for inclusion in the cdpath variable. e.g:

cdpath=(. /users/dtek /users/dtek/d82 /users/dtek/d83 /users/dtek/d84 \
        /users/dtek/d85 /users/dtek/d86  /users/dtek/d87 /users/dtek/d88 \
        /users/dtek/d89 /users/dtek/d90 /users/dtek/d91
	/users/dtek/d92) 

Thus I can say cd d7stfax, and end up in: /users/dtek/d87/d7stfax.
Of course this solution doesn't cover all contingencies like ~d7stfax
would, but in practice I have had no problem with it.

2) Now there`s the annoying fact that you cannot use filename
completion to complete say; $h/bin/whateve. If you have editline
compiled in you can set '_H_' for instance to;
/users/dtek/d87/d7stfax/, and improve the situation.

Since I have a keyboard with a 'meta' shift key, I press M-Shift-h and
can use filename completion from there on.  OK, that's three
simultanous keys, but I have no problem with that.  Your command line
can get quite long though. As in 1) above this isn't perfect, but it
works like a charm for me.

These solutions may not, for various reasons, be right for you, but
then again everybodys mileage may vary.

Regards,
-- 
Stefan Axelsson,			Chalmers University of Technology,
d7stfax@dtek.chalmers.se		Sweden