From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About HOME in OS X Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:25:09 +0200 Message-ID: <8761xkwg2i.fsf@zigzag.favinet> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370982156 21528 80.91.229.3 (11 Jun 2013 20:22:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:22:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 11 22:22:36 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UmV5P-0001Ho-TZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:22:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48057 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmV5P-0006zV-9X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:22:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41477) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmV5F-0006zQ-9u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:22:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmV5E-0003sE-A2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:22:25 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp206.alice.it ([82.57.200.102]:47597) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmV5D-0003s2-Vb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:22:24 -0400 Original-Received: from zigzag.favinet (95.236.25.1) by smtp206.alice.it (8.6.060.15) id 51B4D9B20091DABF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:22:23 +0200 Original-Received: from ttn by zigzag.favinet with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UmV82-0008Kl-Fa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:25:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Barry Margolin's message of "Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:45:09 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.102 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91465 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable () Barry Margolin () Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:45:09 -0400 As someone else pointed out, expand-file-name doesn't expand environment variables. environment is context, i.e., that which need not be said. different lands, different forests, different hope, different dread. floating high above the mess, we share a sigh for VMS, where dollar signs in search paths beckon (still!) to those who dare to tre= ad. =2D-=20 Thien-Thi Nguyen GPG key: 4C807502 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlG3h6gACgkQZwMiJEyAdQKyqQCgoIo7gWaadbRvz0nxlNDaonrP P8sAoNdDClaqkC+InndQmuqBiSWyZhHB =4zhA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--