Re: Is Info browser tilde expansion necessary?

[Gavin Smith]

On 3 February 2017 at 08:43, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 07:57:26 +0000
>> Cc: Hans-Bernhard Bröker <address@hidden>,
>>       Texinfo <address@hidden>
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Ah, I see. I had never thought that anyone would do that. Do you think
>> it is an important feature?
>
> I don't know how important is it.  Probably not terribly important.
> But it's a very old feature, so I think we shouldn't remove it without
> a very good reason.

OK, it would have simplified some of the code slightly, but it does
not really get in the way either.