From 51b40423f49e67601fb1316dcd74ca5273012178 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Naman Sood <mail@nsood.in>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:27:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Node Explorer: accept subdirectories of ~ for root directory
 (#230)

Fixes #200.

---------

Signed-off-by: Naman Sood <mail@nsood.in>
---
 src/extension.ts              | 2 +-
 src/node-explorer-provider.ts | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/extension.ts b/src/extension.ts
index 3d1b805..ac1daee 100644
--- a/src/extension.ts
+++ b/src/extension.ts
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ export async function activate(context: vscode.ExtensionContext) {
           return;
         }
 
-        if (!path.isAbsolute(dir) && dir !== '~') {
+        if (!path.isAbsolute(dir) && dir !== '~' && !dir.startsWith('~/')) {
           vscode.window.showErrorMessage(`${dir} is an invalid absolute path`);
           return;
         }
diff --git a/src/node-explorer-provider.ts b/src/node-explorer-provider.ts
index 00f452a..7a357bd 100644
--- a/src/node-explorer-provider.ts
+++ b/src/node-explorer-provider.ts
@@ -105,6 +105,9 @@ export class NodeExplorerProvider
         const homeDir = await this.fsProvider.getHomeDirectory(element.Address);
 
         if (rootDir && rootDir !== '~') {
+          if (rootDir.startsWith('~/')) {
+            rootDir = `${homeDir}/${rootDir.slice(2)}`;
+          }
           dirDesc = trimPathPrefix(rootDir, homeDir);
         } else {
           rootDir = homeDir;