In 99% of cases, yes - this is a pain in the backside. Long ago I adopted something from the plan9 way of doing things (when I was heavily using acme). Just sy

In 99% of cases, yes - this is a pain in the backside. Long ago I adopted something from the plan9 way of doing things (when I was heavily using acme). Just symlink /h to /home. So ~user becomes /h/user, in places where ~ is not expanded for you.