Cmder: set ~ to home directory

[jebaird]

Maybe this is easy to do, but how do I set ~ to the current users home directory?

[kirkouimet]

+1

[vladimir-kotikov]

alias ~=cd /d ^%USERPROFILE^% will help you :)

[vladimir-kotikov]

@MartiUK IMHO this can be included in default aliases.

[gustavohenke]

It would be amazing if ~ could be used as a variable.

[vladimir-kotikov]

I think here is two options. First is set ~=%USERPROFILE% and something like cd %~%\Documents will work then, but you will have to wrap tilda into %% always. Not sure that this will be valuable.
Second recipe is to place home.lua file with following content

local function tilde_match (text, f, l)
    if text == '~' then
        clink.add_match(clink.get_env('userprofile'))
        clink.matches_are_files()
        return true
    end
end

clink.register_match_generator(tilde_match, 1)

to Cmder's config directory. This will add ~ -> %USERPROFILE% expansion after {TAB} key press

[narnaud]

A last option is to use AutoHotkey

IfWinActive ahk_class VirtualConsoleClass

::~::D:/nicolas

IfWinActive

This will replace ~ by whatever you want, as soon as you type anotther character ('/' or Enter):
cd ~

user type '/', it becomes
cd D:/nicolas/

Note that it's working all the time in ConEmu, meaning it would work even if you ssh into another machine (whic seems plain wrong - I usually stop AutoHotKey aat this point)

[vladimir-kotikov]

Unfortunately all of these workarounds is just a surrogates and can't provide Bash-like ~ replacement.

[MartiUK]

This will never happen, I suggest using PowerShell in cmder if you desperately want ~ aliased.

[nonbeing]

@vladimir-kotikov Thank you for the home.lua recipe - it's exactly what I needed!

[azuria-sky]

Works beautifully, thanks so much!

[DRSDavidSoft]

Sorry to revive this old issue, but I've written a small batch script that exactly handles this, and I think it's a better solution rather than aliasing ~ itself.

If anyone comes along in the future, please have a look here:
https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/issues/1051#issuecomment-702983948