I’m not sure this argument holds up. I’m starting the command in a shell with access to my environment, including my own ~/.iex.exs. The fact that the running node it’s connecting to might or might not be on a different system seems irrelevant.
And if this is the case, it’s surprising behavior inasmuch as any shell command I can think of treats ~ as the home directory of the user invoking it. So at the very least I think the doc needs clarification.
