[openbox] ~me versus /home/meme

Mikael Magnusson mikachu at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 15:53:20 EDT 2009


On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Doug Barton wrote:

> dcarroll wrote:
>> Consider this excerpt from one of my pipe menus:
>>
>> <execute>
>> firefox -new-window http://someremotehost/~me/somewebapp/
>> et cetera
>>
>> Does anybody know how to prevent the tilde (~) from being expanded into
>> the pathname of my home directory?
>
> Try HTML encoding: /%7Eme/somewebapp/

Please don't give advice without trying it first.

--
Mikael Magnusson


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