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Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir?
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Lennart Borgman |
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Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir? |
Date: |
Fri, 5 Jun 2009 23:29:59 +0200 |
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:30 PM, B. T. Raven<nihil@nihilo.net> wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
>>
>> in emacsW32 on Windows, “~/” points to
>> “c:/Users/xah/AppData/Roaming/”
>> but i was expecting it to point to:
>> “c:/Users/xah/”.
>>
>> can anyone know why? Is this just a emacsW32 quirk or is this supposed
>> to be that way? Is this just a Windows env var that i didn't set, or
>> is it some emacs setup? (am not familiar with windows env var or
>> cmd.exe)
>>
>> am asking because i have many init files and elisp functions that take
>> a path, and on unix ~ is user home root.
It should be on Windows too. Xah, could you please download the
unpatched version and see if you get the same problem there? I am not
aware of that I have done something special in Emacs+EmacsW32, but
just in case...
>> thanks.
>>
>> Xah
>> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
>>
>> ☄
>
> You can go to Control panel / System / Advanced / Environment Variables
> and edit the HOME variable to make it C:\Users\xah
>
- Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir?, Xah Lee, 2009/06/05
- Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir?, B. T. Raven, 2009/06/05
- Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir?,
Lennart Borgman <=
- Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/06/05
- Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir?, Jason Rumney, 2009/06/06
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