Expand `~` from config

[ForteDexe]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

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 69df011 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

[code-asher]

~ is normally expanded by the shell, so it would not get expanded in a YAML config. But, it would be nice if we manually expand it when we read the config.

[ForteDexe]

If run as the services, using ~ it recognizes the user-data folder well
But other stuff might not, ie:

[error] Unable to read file '/~/.config/code-server-user-data/extensions/extensions.json' (Error: Unable to resolve nonexistent file '/~/.config/code-server-user-data/extensions/extensions.json'): Error: Unable to read file '/~/.config/code-server-user-data/extensions/extensions.json' (Error: Unable to resolve nonexistent file '/~/.config/code-server-user-data/extensions/extensions.json')