Re: How to prevent Emacs from translating beginning of file path into "~"?

[MBR <mbr@arlsoft.com>]

On 4/10/15 8:31 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Unfortunately, some applications don't understand paths that begin with "~".
> Hard to believe.  I recommend you report these cases as bugs.
>
>
>          Stefan
To do that I'd have to convince some standards body (IETF?, W3C?) to 
modify RFC 1630 - not bloody likely.  The applications I had in mind 
when I said this are Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari, and Opera when using 
the "file" scheme.  With just a few easy-to-type keystrokes, I can copy 
the Emacs buffer's path and paste it into some browser's location bar 
after first typing "file:".  Viola - I'm looking at my desired directory!

Describing the exact keystrokes in words makes it sound complicated, but 
actually typing it is pretty easy and far less error-prone than trying 
to accurately type the full path into the location bar by hand.

In earlier versions of Emacs, this worked fine with all browsers, 
regardless of what directory my Emacs buffer was in, because Emacs 
wasn't trying to be smart about the home directory.  But some version of 
Emacs changed that, and it's been an annoyance ever since then.

    Mark