Date:	Mon, 10 May 1999 09:32:24 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	"Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject:	RE: v2.03: wrapping up
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On Sun, 9 May 1999, Mark E. wrote:

> It would also be nice if we could find a way to let '~'  be a valid first 
> character of a default string since under the current scheme a default 
> string with special meaning to Bash like '~/_inputrc' is disallowed.

`~' is only special in a file name which begins with "/dev/env";
otherwise it's just a normal character.  So how does the code I posted
disallow "~/_inputrc"?

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