From: graham@gorgeous.org
Subject: Re: Defining directory ~/ on MS-Windows
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 13:56:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud5yg8rg8.fsf@gorgeous.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2596.1100408165.8225.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: graham@gorgeous.org
>> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:34:12 +0000
>>
>> On MS-Windows Emacs understands paths like ~/foo.txt. It converts
>> this to c:\foo.txt. I would like it to convert it to
>> c:\Documents and Settings\My User Name\foo.txt instead, like XEmacs does.
>>
>> How can this be done?
>
> "~" is a short for %HOME%. So, if you define the environment variable
> HOME whose value is "c:\Documents and Settings\Your User Name", you
> will get what you want.
Thanks, this did the trick.
Graham
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-14 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-13 22:34 Defining directory ~/ on MS-Windows graham
2004-11-14 4:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-14 5:59 ` Slava
[not found] ` <mailman.2596.1100408165.8225.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-11-14 13:56 ` graham [this message]
2004-11-17 3:46 ` hackevin
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