From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir? Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:12:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <6377028f-938f-47b5-86a6-3f4034244d5b@h2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244250758 16084 80.91.229.12 (6 Jun 2009 01:12:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 01:12:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 06 03:12:35 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MCkSY-0006gC-9F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:12:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44303 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCkSX-0004KI-EK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:12:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCkSE-0004K5-IM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:12:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCkS9-0004Ji-4r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:12:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36765 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCkS8-0004Jf-VD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:12:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:52998) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MCkS8-0005C2-QV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:12:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MCkS8-0000nZ-Nv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:12:08 -0400 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)) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64985 Archived-At: > From: Xah Lee > 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.