Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's right: I was trying to bring makeAbsPath into line with > expandPath. It's clear why the latter supports "~": Because one might > want to configure the path to, say, the lyxpipe as: ~/.lyx/lyxpipe. > How useful it is in the other case, I'm not sure, but I was surprised > when it didn't work during my testing, so....
I was not aware that expandPath supports ~ notation. I think it should not, actually... Making these variables relative to user_dir would be more useful (so that it would work when user_dir is renamed). JMarc
