From d49f35817e781ed4f5cd085f014a89802bca2b39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxime Coste <frrrwww@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:18:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix handling of ~ in filenames so that :edit ~ does not open
 a file named '~'

---
 src/file.cc | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/file.cc b/src/file.cc
index 1e9b7327..2366c2c4 100644
--- a/src/file.cc
+++ b/src/file.cc
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ namespace Kakoune
 
 String parse_filename(const String& filename)
 {
-    if (filename.length() >= 2 and filename[0] == '~' and filename[1] == '/')
-        return parse_filename("$HOME/" + filename.substr(2_byte));
+    if (filename.length() >= 1 and filename[0] == '~' and
+        (filename.length() == 1 or filename[1] == '/'))
+        return parse_filename("$HOME" + filename.substr(1_byte));
 
     ByteCount pos = 0;
     String result;