From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir? Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 06:26:35 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8592f456-8878-4f40-ad30-7adaa29dcf01@21g2000vbk.googlegroups.com> References: <6377028f-938f-47b5-86a6-3f4034244d5b@h2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244295640 5614 80.91.229.12 (6 Jun 2009 13:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 13:40:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 06 15:40:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MCw8T-0001PG-Mq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49118 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCw8T-0003cH-23 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:40:37 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!21g2000vbk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 8 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 124.13.2.139 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1244294795 29151 127.0.0.1 (6 Jun 2009 13:26:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 13:26:35 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 21g2000vbk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=124.13.2.139; posting-account=pYxWjwkAAACsHSUNDoi5N05LVCTP7PVM User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169759 comp.emacs:98217 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64989 Archived-At: On Jun 6, 1:52=A0am, Xah Lee wrote: > in emacsW32 on Windows, =A0=93~/=94 points to > =93c:/Users/xah/AppData/Roaming/=94 > but i was expecting it to point to: > =93c:/Users/xah/=94. c:\Users\xah is not guaranteed to be writable by the user xah. The directory pointed to by Windows system variable CSIDL_APPDATA is.