From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir? Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 11:19:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <6377028f-938f-47b5-86a6-3f4034244d5b@h2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> <9f7baaff-c170-48dd-a5ec-194e91c3d93e@g1g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244366385 21556 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2009 09:19:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 09:19:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Xah Lee Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 07 11:19:42 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MDEXT-0001SJ-SX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:19:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51099 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MDEXT-0006KS-4M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:19:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MDEWw-0006Iy-MM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:19:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MDEWr-0006EW-M5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:19:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49800 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MDEWr-0006EG-C2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:19:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f217.google.com ([209.85.220.217]:53852) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MDEWr-0008C0-1x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:19:01 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so126091fxm.42 for ; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:19:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=MrEDggmbWNIq8FGsk7VL/RtMPVuf+33f3x2JheG2tEU=; b=KFDqle74GUWMwwGx5WCRB3pKQUZGbHjWLMTO0dMbQZyXGQAzLF84y/TMi/VPI50ck9 wi8jhxkglgRyNA82UL9S7PtGdSwIgFkZknS3+Ddc7i5aO9tYIjrAKBjoyy+63tKJtP3Q +tQaCV/uCDBA2hmZduMIixJBdEx7q2oZwTEyQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WXsJh8qi2kGxhI/D8zQMgs3/4MKPSkEcib6uvijd7WmIOlLHCGbrua4ooPjT8NTf2A 3OSOMFkONANfWtmgjbPxYwOuuN5hvsSIInmvD3U/8COE9ISbrn8Ov+LrAYCjB9y4kBAk j+tggGdE1q+ZQLziSFGhdYMj0CErXU41us+HY= Original-Received: by 10.239.151.82 with SMTP id q18mr380203hbb.22.1244366340141; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:19:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9f7baaff-c170-48dd-a5ec-194e91c3d93e@g1g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65001 Archived-At: On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Xah Lee wrote: > On Jun 5, 6:12 pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > From: Xah Lee >> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs >> > Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:52:53 -0700 (PDT) >> >> > in emacsW32 on Windows, =C2=A0=E2=80=9C~/=E2=80=9D points to >> > =E2=80=9Cc:/Users/xah/AppData/Roaming/=E2=80=9D >> > but i was expecting it to point to: >> > =E2=80=9Cc:/Users/xah/=E2=80=9D. >> >> It is supposed to point by default to whatever CSIDL_APPDATA is set to >> on that machine. =C2=A0That is, to the `Application Data' subdirectory o= f >> your user profile directory. =C2=A0Setting HOME in the environment >> overrides that. =C2=A0If Emacs does not behave like that, it's a bug tha= t >> should be reported. > > Thanks all. > > Setting Windows's env var HOME to c:\Users\xah helped. However, it > seems that when emacs starts as server/client, it still loads from =E2=80= =9Cc:/ > Users/xah/AppData/Roaming/=E2=80=9D. It should work the same. Perhaps you need to restart your pc?