[openbox] ~me versus /home/meme
Mikael Magnusson
mikachu at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 15:56:35 EDT 2009
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> 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.
Sorry for being slow, that does work in this specific case of urls, but it
won't become a tilde in openbox generically.
--
Mikael Magnusson
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