sindresorhus / tildify

Convert an absolute path to tilde path: /Users/sindresorhus/dev => ~/dev

tildify

Convert an absolute path to a tilde path: /Users/sindresorhus/dev → ~/dev

Install

$ npm install tildify

Usage

import tildify from 'tildify';

tildify('/Users/sindresorhus/dev');
//=> '~/dev'

Related

See untildify for the inverse.

tildify's Issues

Make str.replace strict?

Hey @sindresorhus
How about this? also would work in untildify

module.exports = function (str) {
    return str.replace(home, '~');
};

=>

module.exports = function (str) {
  str += path.sep;
  str = str.replace(home + path.sep, '~' + path.sep);
  str = str.slice(0, -1);
  return str;
};

test(function (t) {
  var fixture = home;
  t.assert(tildify(fixture) === '~');
  t.end();
});

test(function (t) {
  var fixture = path.resolve(home, 'tildify');
  t.assert(tildify(fixture)[0] === '~');
  t.assert(/tildify$/.test(tildify(fixture)));
  t.assert(tildify(fixture) !== fixture);
  t.end();
});

test(function (t) {
  var fixture = path.resolve(home + 'foo', 'tildify');
  t.assert(tildify(fixture) === fixture);
  t.end();
});

Replaces the home dir even if it's not at the start of the path

Say my home dir is /Users/callum

and I've got a folder called /Some/project/Users/callum/foo

tildify changes this to /Some/project/~/foo

which is probably not what you want

string match fails when Windows drive letter is lowercase

Paths returned by VS Code APIs may have lowercase drive letters on Windows. As StartsWith is case sensitive the logic fails. It's such short code I just rewrote it in Typescript and fixed my local copy.

	if (normalizedPath[1] === ":") {
		//force first char to uppercase
		normalizedPath = normalizedPath.replace(normalizedPath[0], normalizedPath[0].toUpperCase());
	}