[Docutils-develop] Re: [Docutils-checkins] docutils/docs/dev todo.txt,1.267,1.268

[Beni C. <cb...@us...>]

Felix Wiemann wrote:
> +  - ``~/.docutils`` does not work (because the tilde is only expanded
> +    by the shell).  Is a user-specific configuration file really
> +    necessary?  Maybe the name (``.docutils``) needs discussion, too.
> +
There is code in frontend.py that explicitly expands it::

     def get_standard_config_files(self):
         """Return list of config files, from environment or standard."""
         try:
             config_files = os.environ['DOCUTILSCONFIG'].split(os.pathsep)
         except KeyError:
             config_files = self.standard_config_files
         return [os.path.expanduser(f) for f in config_files if f.strip()]

Can you show the specific scenario where it doesn't work?

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