Bug#418529: marked as forwarded (jed: evalfile() no longer supporting ~ in path name)

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* John E. Davis <davis at space.mit.edu> [2007-04-12 15:15]:

> It was intended.  evalfile is slang's lowest level file loading
> function, and as such it should not tamper with the name passed to it.
> For example, under Unix ~ is a perfectly valid directory name and it
> should be possible to load a file in that directory.  For filename
> expansion, use the expand_filename function.  While not as convenient,
> you can also use evalfile("$HOME/foo.sl"$);

Should we close this bug report?

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Rafael