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authorShea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>2015-02-19T13·05-0500
committerShea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>2015-02-19T13·05-0500
commite0953d53de1dbb89ef0ff779e53ffdb0d988e806 (patch)
treefdace2efd90da8735d3abb36a16f65aad9b28f79 /doc/manual/expressions
parent1816ac0db1817642e27ef1544c7d9b904dbb670a (diff)
Allow the leading component of a path to be a ~
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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/expressions/language-values.xml9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/expressions/language-values.xml b/doc/manual/expressions/language-values.xml
index c3514e58f0de..0bf6632d6e3a 100644
--- a/doc/manual/expressions/language-values.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/expressions/language-values.xml
@@ -155,7 +155,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   expression that contained it.  For instance, if a Nix expression in
   <filename>/foo/bar/bla.nix</filename> refers to
   <filename>../xyzzy/fnord.nix</filename>, the absolute path is
-  <filename>/foo/xyzzy/fnord.nix</filename>.</para></listitem>
+  <filename>/foo/xyzzy/fnord.nix</filename>.</para>
+
+  <para>If the first component of a path is a <literal>~</literal>,
+  it is interpreted as if the rest of the path were relative to the
+  user's home directory. e.g. <filename>~/foo</filename> would be
+  equivalent to <filename>/home/edolstra/foo</filename> for a user
+  whose home directory is <filename>/home/edolstra</filename>.
+  </para></listitem>
 
   <listitem><para><emphasis>Booleans</emphasis> with values
   <literal>true</literal> and