Re: Is Info browser tilde expansion necessary?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.

> I thought it might be for the contents of the INFOPATH environment
> variable, but this is expanded when defined, at least it is in bash
> when I checked.

There could be a (rare) use case where INFOPATH is set by a program
other than a shell.