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From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir?
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:52:53 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6377028f-938f-47b5-86a6-3f4034244d5b@h2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> (raw)

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
∑ http://xahlee.org/

☄


             reply	other threads:[~2009-06-05 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-05 17:52 Xah Lee [this message]
2009-06-05 19:30 ` Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir? B. T. Raven
2009-06-05 21:29   ` Lennart Borgman
2009-06-06  1:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.95.1244250736.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-06 13:00   ` Xah Lee
2009-06-07  9:19     ` Lennart Borgman
     [not found]     ` <mailman.138.1244366348.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-07 11:56       ` Xah Lee
2009-06-06 13:26 ` Jason Rumney

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