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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:34:17 +0000 (UTC) Shug Boabby wrote:

> i wish to change the definition of ~/ in the minibuffer.

Setting $HOME before starting emacs should work.  In bash:

$ HOME=/Users/shug/GNU emacs

David