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* Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir?
@ 2009-06-05 17:52 Xah Lee
  2009-06-05 19:30 ` B. T. Raven
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From: Xah Lee @ 2009-06-05 17:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

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.

thanks.

  Xah
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2009-06-05 17:52 Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir? Xah Lee
2009-06-05 19:30 ` B. T. Raven
2009-06-05 21:29   ` Lennart Borgman
2009-06-06  1:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2009-06-06 13:00   ` Xah Lee
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2009-06-07 11:56       ` Xah Lee
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