From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir?
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:12:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1MCkS8-0000nZ-Nv@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6377028f-938f-47b5-86a6-3f4034244d5b@h2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> (message from Xah Lee on Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:52:53 -0700 (PDT))
> From: Xah Lee <xahlee@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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-06 1:12 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 [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.95.1244250736.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-06 13:00 ` Xah Lee
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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