Re: es 0.7: ^C at prompt

[Tony Sloane <tony@riker.cs.colorado.edu>]

 > re overriding the meaning of ~:  in the future, yes.  right now, maybe not,
 > because a serious amount of code would have to be reorganized to support it.
 > (~ is done in the globber, the globber runs with gcblocked, and you can't
 > run code with the garbage collector off.)

 > for now, if you really want ~user to always turn into /foo/user, hack the
 > globber.  (glob.c, in dirmatch() and glob1()).

I'll do that.

 > when this does become a redefinable function, it will probably be called %home.

Yes, that's a much better name.

Tony