From: Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir?
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 06:26:35 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8592f456-8878-4f40-ad30-7adaa29dcf01@21g2000vbk.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6377028f-938f-47b5-86a6-3f4034244d5b@h2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com
On Jun 6, 1:52 am, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> in emacsW32 on Windows, “~/” points to
> “c:/Users/xah/AppData/Roaming/”
> but i was expecting it to point to:
> “c:/Users/xah/”.
c:\Users\xah is not guaranteed to be writable by the user xah. The
directory pointed to by Windows system variable CSIDL_APPDATA is.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-06 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-05 17:52 Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir? Xah Lee
2009-06-05 19:30 ` 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 [this message]
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