From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 14:03:14 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168207579 19409 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2007 22:06:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 22:06:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 07 23:06:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H3g9e-0004DK-CR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:06:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H3g9d-0000mr-9t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:06:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H3g8b-0000IZ-RL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:05:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H3g8Z-0000HU-PP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:05:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H3g8Z-0000HP-MF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:05:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.228] (helo=agminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H3g8V-0008Ma-Ck; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:05:03 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l07M50cQ012952; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 16:05:00 -0600 Original-Received: from rcsmt251.oracle.com (rcsmt251.oracle.com [148.87.90.196]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l07M4xbb005884; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 15:04:59 -0700 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-rmdc-csvpn-gw4-141-144-96-135.vpn.oracle.com by rcsmt251.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2343748991168207409; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:03:29 -0700 Original-To: "Eli Zaretskii" , "Stephen Leake" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:64936 Archived-At: It seems that `abbreviate-file-name' does not recognize the effect of using `setenv' inside Emacs (on Windows). 1. Outside Emacs, set $HOME to c:\ ("c:\\" as a Lisp string). emacs -Q (getenv "HOME") ; => "c:\\" (setenv "HOME" "c:/drews-lisp-20/") ; => "c:/drews-lisp-20/" (abbreviate-file-name "c:/drews-lisp-20/") ; => "c:/drews-lisp-20/" (EXPECTED "~/") That is, I would expect $HOME to be replaced by ~/ (or perhaps ~), but it was not. 2. Outside Emacs, set $HOME to c:\drews-lisp-20\. emacs -Q (getenv "HOME") ; => "c:\\drews-lisp-20\\" (abbreviate-file-name "c:/drews-lisp-20/") ; => "~/" (setenv "HOME" "c:/drews-lisp-20/") ; => "c:/drews-lisp-20/" (abbreviate-file-name "c:/drews-lisp-20/") ; => "~/" `directory-abbrev-alist' remained nil throughout both tests.