From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Hanchrow Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Can HOME be made a link in "(emacs) Find Init"? Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:59:46 -0800 Message-ID: <87psm4gnul.fsf@blarg.net> References: <43DE9B73.8010303@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139010193 461 80.91.229.2 (3 Feb 2006 23:43:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:43:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 04 00:43:06 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F5AZn-00031F-ST for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:42:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F5Acz-000234-NI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:46:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F585b-0002cy-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:03:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F585V-0002aZ-VN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:03:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F585V-0002aG-9c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:03:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1F584X-0008NJ-SV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:02:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1F5829-0000xS-Av for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:59:57 +0100 Original-Received: from offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net ([206.124.138.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:59:57 +0100 Original-Received: from offby1 by offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:59:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.51 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FAXx4pRrUiiUcYPKYi8RA/laWbQ= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:49986 Archived-At: >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:04:19 +0100 From: Lennart Borgman >> >> >> I believe making HOME a link in the node above would be very >> good for beginners. Eli> Done. I think you should use @xref instead of @pxref; it currently renders as Normally Emacs uses the environment variable `HOME' (*note HOME: General Variables.) to find `.emacs'; that's what `~' means in a file Note the period inside the parentheses. I think @xref will suppress that. -- [Dijkstra's] great strength is that he is uncompromising. It would make him physically ill to think of programming in C++. -- Donald E. Knuth