[openbox] ~me versus /home/meme

[Anthony Thyssen]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:04:02 -0700
Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us> 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/
| 
The tilde is expanded AFTER the XML is expanded!!  No dice!


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