From 73bab32aa9b821e6bc4407ee80b423e967172ad3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Schippers <stefan.schippers@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 22:56:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] __unix__: do simple tilde subst ( ~/ --> /home/user) just in
 case this was not done by the shell

---
 src/xinit.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/xinit.c b/src/xinit.c
index 69fa9e3e..9835e481 100644
--- a/src/xinit.c
+++ b/src/xinit.c
@@ -1446,7 +1446,10 @@ int Tcl_AppInit(Tcl_Interp *inter)
     char f[PATH_MAX];
 
 #ifdef __unix__
-    if(filename[0] !='/') {
+    if(filename[0] == '~' && filename[1] == '/') {
+      here();
+      my_snprintf(f, S(f), "%s%s", home_dir, filename + 1);
+    } else if(filename[0] !='/') {
       my_snprintf(f, S(f), "%s/%s", pwd_dir, filename);
     } else {
       my_snprintf(f, S(f), "%s", filename);