Comment 8 for bug 1646034

My expectation is:

"~" as a special character is a convention _for the shell only_ and _only at the beginning of a string_.

The shell where you type "terminator --wor..." expands it only if it's preceded by a space and is not within quites, that is,

  terminator --working-directory="~/Documents"
  terminator --working-directory=~/Documents
  terminator --working-directory "~/Documents"

are expected to leave it as a literal "~", however, replacing "=" by a space and omitting the quotes:

  terminator --working-direcotry ~/Documents

is expected to work because the shell from which you invoke terminator interprets and replaces it with /home/mb/Documents for you.

My reality is:

All of the above do work on my system. I have no clue why :D :D :D

In "ps ax" the first three show a literal "~" whereas the last variant shows the expanded value. Hence either terminator itself, or the shell launched by terminator interprets the leading "~" once again. They should not.