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| Summary: | Using the ~ (tilde) results in an invalid location | ||||||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Denis Roy <denis.roy> | ||||
| Component: | CVS | Assignee: | platform-cvs-inbox <platform-cvs-inbox> | ||||
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | normal | ||||||
| Priority: | P5 | CC: | Kevin_McGuire | ||||
| Version: | 3.5 | Keywords: | helpwanted | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | PC | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Bug Depends on: | 5717 | ||||||
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(In reply to comment #0) > When creating a patch, it seems that ~/patch.txt is not a valid location for the > file. However, under *nix, ~/patch.txt is perfectly valid. Isn't it that ~ is not a valid location on *nix and a shell just resolves it into the home directory? Anyway, if we agree that ~ should be respected in location fields, we have to address it everywhere in Eclipse. We could handle relative paths in the create patch dialog in a similar way how it's done for the import dialog (see bug 5717). They simply use canonical forms of relative paths, which for ~/patch.txt would be user.dir/~/patch.txt. > Isn't it that ~ is not a valid location on *nix and a shell just resolves it
> into the home directory?
Perhaps, but most other GUI apps I use properly handle the ~ directory. Eclipse always stands out as the one that doesn't.
(In reply to comment #3) > Perhaps, but most other GUI apps I use properly handle the ~ directory. Eclipse > always stands out as the one that doesn't. Good point. Kevin, do you have any comments on that? If the create patch dialog is fixed, we should fix the rest of Platform and also PDE and JDT. (In reply to comment #4) > > Good point. > Kevin, do you have any comments on that? If the create patch dialog is fixed, > we should fix the rest of Platform and also PDE and JDT. > And WTP and CDT and BIRT and ... etc PW (In reply to comment #3) > Perhaps, but most other GUI apps I use properly handle the ~ directory. > Eclipse always stands out as the one that doesn't. As discussed in bug 5717, this is not true. Other apps either invoke the native dialog from the onset, or force the user to click [Choose] or [Browse] which invokes the native dialog. With that in mind, I suggest closing as WORKSFORME, since I prefer Eclipse's dialog instead of being forced to click [Browse]. (In reply to comment #6) > With that in mind, I suggest closing as WORKSFORME, since I prefer Eclipse's > dialog instead of being forced to click [Browse]. So be it ;) |
Created attachment 142157 [details] Screenshot Using Galileo GA When creating a patch, it seems that ~/patch.txt is not a valid location for the file. However, under *nix, ~/patch.txt is perfectly valid. It would save me some typing and clicking if Eclipse could figure this one out.