quickfix location can't be set to arbitrary directory about ghcid

[ndmitchell]

If you write -o ~/.quickfix what happens? I don't foresee any reason for it not writing it whereever you ask? (but I haven't looked at this code in a while)

[xave]

No file is written if you prepend a dot to it or if you provide a path to it.

This works:

quickfix
foobar

This does not work:

.quickfix
~/.quickfix
/any/other/path/quickfix

[ndmitchell]

All I do is call writeFile on it - https://github.com/ndmitchell/ghcid/blob/master/src/Ghcid.hs#L383-L387 - I have no idea why that wouldn't work. I guess this is a Linux machine? I only have a Windows to test on right now, but it seems to work fine there.

[xave]

I guess this is a Linux machine?

Yes. I am on macOS.