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Re: es 0.7: ^C at prompt



| PS.  Are there any plans to make it possible to get at the ~user mechanism in
| some way?  I have a machine that many people don't have logins on but that has
| access to their home directories via amd/NFS.  Thus a passwd file mechanism
| doesn't work for most people in the dept.  I'd like to (say) be able to define
| a function that gets called when doing ~ expansion.

Amd supports a home directory map, independent of the passwd file.
/u/schwartz then points to /home/groucho/schwartz, or whatever.  This
is a thing that goes so nicely in the OS, it's a shame to force it on
the shell, especially since other programs often want the short name
for users' homes.