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From: Harald Oehlmann <wortkarg3@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Tilde expansion bug in Tk 9.0 for Windows
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:56:16 +0100
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Am 28.10.2024 um 00:30 schrieb Michael Soyka:
> On 10/27/2024 7:10 PM, Gerald Lester wrote:
>> On 10/27/24 16:13, Michael Soyka wrote:
>>> Tcl/Tk developers-
>>>
>>> Although automatic tilde expansion has been removed from Tcl version 
>>> 9, I found one instance in the Tk sources where it hasn't been 
>>> addressed. Specifically, in tk/win/winMain.c, the Tcl variable 
>>> "tcl_rcFileName" is apparently given the value "~/wishrc.tcl".
>>>
>>> I noticed this because my version of wish90 does not source this file 
>>> as earlier versions did.
>>
>> Did you file a bug report on this at https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/ticket
>>
> No, I did not.  Thank you for the link- I will do so.
> 
> -mike

This is a known bug which could not be fixed as the tilde expansion did 
not have a C interface jet.
This will be corrected by currently TIP 701 (in voting).

https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/fcfddc9f6d

The file you found were not jet in the list. I added it to this bug.

Thanks for all,
Harald