From: Kevin Montuori <montuori@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About HOME in OS X
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:30:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1370950220.8148.140661242522405.081B85FA@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAF+z6EszkKYP5oUtjbFCV9tK+wTTgc+h=sTRYYggVXzkedeiA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013, at 7:22, Xue Fuqiao wrote:
> ELISP> (getenv "HOME")
> "/Users/xfq"
> ELISP> (expand-file-name "$HOME/foo")
> "/Users/xfq/emacs-repo/bzr/trunk/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/$HOME/foo"
>
> I'm confused here. Why don't the result of two evaluations be the same?
Nothing in expand-file-name's documentation would lead me to expect it
to expand an environment variable (prefixed with $ or otherwise). I
think what you probably want is (expand-file-name "~/foo").
k.
--
Kevin Montuori
montuori@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-11 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-11 11:22 About HOME in OS X Xue Fuqiao
2013-06-11 11:27 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-06-11 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1403.1370966034.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-11 16:45 ` Barry Margolin
2013-06-11 17:05 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.1410.1370970844.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-11 17:20 ` Barry Margolin
2013-06-11 21:38 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-06-11 20:25 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-06-11 11:30 ` Kevin Montuori [this message]
2013-06-11 15:13 ` Peter Dyballa
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