From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About HOME in OS X Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:05:34 +0200 Message-ID: <939F2971-3E46-43B3-8478-534CC74BB233@Web.DE> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370970863 26278 80.91.229.3 (11 Jun 2013 17:14:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:14:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Barry Margolin Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 11 19:14:23 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 1UmS97-00073F-Pd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:14:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38635 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmS97-0005Kd-8T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:14:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41457) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmS8u-0005Cf-M6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:14:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmS8t-00080o-Av for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:14:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:52724) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmS0n-0005Fe-Em for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:05:37 -0400 Original-Received: from sumac.fritz.box ([176.198.63.55]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb102) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0MFt4k-1UXcq02jlm-00EtE1; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:05:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:7P8ihqjYuW1h4gBbjbN4ChpSYRGnCJ9qsTs+Z6rie0RUzTzw31A Rc6+p7wIrgXwTDZ+FMgsUAMMUikNADRuZG5WRQDYRf/ioaJT6OjYxwxU0UXEYwNJg1YChk2 3mgccmke9NYwV+k9YtyLnV3jFps7P7kqmQMRUhko715p4m091bBxTNO2bC1UrrDK8mNI1O0 owGcQ5Sbnlis+C2m92EQQ== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.4 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:91461 Archived-At: Am 11.06.2013 um 18:45 schrieb Barry Margolin: > "$HOME/foo" is a relative path $HOME is a variable that holds an *absolute* path. (It starts with "/", = the root of the file system.) -- Greetings Pete (This space left blank for technical reasons.)