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Expand `~` from config

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
32/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
cli

Research direction

Reproduce the report by setting user-data-dir: ~/.config/code-server-data in config.yaml and running code-server from different current directories. Trace how the config value is resolved, then verify that the resulting browser path is ~/.config/code-server-data rather than a duplicated or current-directory-prefixed path.

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Description

enhancement
Is there an existing issue for this?
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OS/Web Information
  • Web Browser: Vivaldi
  • Local OS: Ubuntu 24.10
  • Remote OS: Ubuntu 24.10
  • Remote Architecture: amd64
  • code-server --version: 4.93.1 69df01185ce2f80e99c9e4f8c8de1907cc7a9bc5 with Code 1.93.1
Steps to Reproduce
  1. add this user-data-dir: ~/.config/code-server-data to config.yaml
  2. run command code-server
Expected
~/.config/code-server-data
Actual

But in the web browser, it will be:

~/~/.config/code-server-data
Note

I get it now, depends on where the current directory in the terminal is, code-server will use the current directory plus user-data-dir

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