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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Location of .emacs in Windows 7
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:41:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d26cyrbl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mw5gyroz.fsf@gmail.com>

> From: Jordan Wilson <inopem@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 16:33:16 +0000
> 
> There's a file in the Emacs distribution (it's
> share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el in 24.4 from ftp.gnu.org, it might
> be in a different place on other versions) that allows you to define HOME,
> i.e. what `~' expands to.

IME, it's not a good idea to define HOME (or PATH or ...) inside Emacs
differently than it's defined outside, because it will cause subtle
problems, e.g. in programs not invoked from Emacs.  It is best to
define HOME in the environment outside Emacs, such that both Emacs and
the other programs use the same value.



      reply	other threads:[~2015-01-18 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-17  0:38 Location of .emacs in Windows 7 Steve Graham
2015-01-17  2:02 ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-01-17  2:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-18 16:33 ` Jordan Wilson
2015-01-18 16:41   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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