From: Xah Lee <xahlee@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 06:00:12 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9f7baaff-c170-48dd-a5ec-194e91c3d93e@g1g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.95.1244250736.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Jun 5, 6:12 pm, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com>
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs
> > Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:52:53 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > in emacsW32 on Windows, “~/” points to
> > “c:/Users/xah/AppData/Roaming/”
> > but i was expecting it to point to:
> > “c:/Users/xah/”.
>
> It is supposed to point by default to whatever CSIDL_APPDATA is set to
> on that machine. That is, to the `Application Data' subdirectory of
> your user profile directory. Setting HOME in the environment
> overrides that. If Emacs does not behave like that, it's a bug that
> should be reported.
Thanks all.
Setting Windows's env var HOME to c:\Users\xah helped. However, it
seems that when emacs starts as server/client, it still loads from “c:/
Users/xah/AppData/Roaming/”.
I vaguely recall similar question asked here recently.
Am not familiar with server/client feature of emacs 23 yet... in
particular, how can i make it so that emacs just have one single dir
for the init files? (or if i should try to do that at all?)
Thanks.
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-06 13:00 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 [this message]
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
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