Comment 1 for bug 570423

Leo, thank you for your report. I see what you are saying, though it is not entirely accurate. In a basic sudo environment, your user's environment variables remain intact, so ~ still references your home directory. If you entered a sudo-root shell with "sudo -s", you will find that "echo ~" prints your home directory. However, if you use the initial-login switch, "sudo -i", running "echo ~" will print "/root".

I think this note in the docs needs to be removed altogether since it is inaccurate and not really applicable to this specific section of the docs anyway.