Re: Is Info browser tilde expansion necessary?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 22:42:39 +0000
> Cc: Texinfo <address@hidden>
> 
> With regards to any problems in tilde.c, I'd prefer to resolve this by
> deleting the file. I don't think the Info browser needs to convert
> tilde characters into the user's home directory. I don't know why this
> feature was added in the first place (looking at the ChangeLog, it
> looks like it's been there from the start).

Most probably this feature is there to emulate Emacs.

> Tilde expansion is done by the shell so there's no need for Info to
> do it as well.

??? When I type "C-x C-f" in Info, no shell will help me expand the
tilde in the file name I type after that.  Likewise if I want to
specify a file name in the argument given to the 'g' command.