Previewer does not interpret ~ in search results

[rieje]

I have a wrapper for fzf to show list of my most frequently edited files like dotfiles and explicitly use ~ to make it visually cleaner to see the entries (vs. /home/rieje). with --preview='less {}' I get: ~/path/to/file: No such file or directory. Is it possible for the previewer to expand ~ as you would expect?

I would much prefer not having to parse the selected item to convert it back to /home/rieje/path/to/file.

Also, is there a way have results show paths with ~ but on selection expand it for an arbitrary command? For example selecting ~/path.txt for vim to run as /home/rieje. I could write a wrapper script to translate it manually onl selection before passing it to vim, but this cannot be done for e.g. fzf's default Ctrl-T AFAIK.