[openbox] ~me versus /home/meme

[Doug Barton]

Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> 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.

I did try it first, but in general I agree with your suggestion so
I'll let you slide. :)

> Sorry for being slow, that does work in this specific case of urls, but
> it won't become a tilde in openbox generically.

Unless I'm missing something, avoiding having openbox see that as a
tilde (so as to avoid having it expanded into the string for his home
directory) is exactly what the OP was after.


Doug