I understand that you are used to ~ being treated as shorthand for home directory. But that's just Unix convention. WinSCP can be used to connect to different types of servers. The server should interpret it's special path syntax, not the client.
Anyway, WinSCP might make use of OpenSSH expand-path extension. I've added this request to the tracker:
Issue 2442 – Use OpenSSH expand-path extension to interpret ~ syntax
You can vote for it there.

Hi,



yes, you guessed right, that was not what i wanted when i entered this:



please fix that so that it adherers to the unix convention,

thanks in advance and keep up the good work

thx