From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Shug Boabby" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing $HOME Date: 6 Mar 2005 20:30:21 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1110169821.196238.32640@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <20050223233416726+0000@news.btinternet.com> <873bvm4xqq.fsf@robotron.ath.cx> <20050224002912263+0000@news.btinternet.com> <1109968082.394434.43120@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <87vf87ui17.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <1109979196.118558.141930@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <87r7ivueuz.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <87is47uer3.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <1109982217.020944.135300@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <87zmxi8tbc.fsf@ID-87814.user.uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110169811 25044 80.91.229.2 (7 Mar 2005 04:30:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 04:30:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 07 05:30:11 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D89sb-0000yo-FB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 05:30:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8ACI-00015G-Lt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 23:50:26 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!postnews.google.com!g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.146.131.133 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1110169825 17412 127.0.0.1 (7 Mar 2005 04:30:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 04:30:25 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87zmxi8tbc.fsf@ID-87814.user.uni-berlin.de> User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.146.131.133; posting-account=jQz-EQ0AAABiniXWq8YyRVQ60t_LIYwt Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129030 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24576 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24576 > What directory do you see, if you type `C-x d ~ RET'? /Users/shug/GNU: wildcard GNU ls: GNU: No such file or directory but i assure you that /Users/shug/GNU does indeed exist > If not at the right one, please start Emacs like this: > emacs -q --no-site-file --eval '(setenv "HOME" "/User/shug/GNU")' (note i changed your "User" to "Users") and i get the same results. perhaps this is only broken in the OS X carbon builds? i think i will try to solve this problem by getting OS X to pass the correct environment onto Emacs when it starts. until then... a command line wrapper is my friend.