From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir?
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:30:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YrydnVrJXqy277TXnZ2dnUVZ_tti4p2d@sysmatrix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6377028f-938f-47b5-86a6-3f4034244d5b@h2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>
Xah Lee wrote:
> in emacsW32 on Windows, “~/” points to
> “c:/Users/xah/AppData/Roaming/”
> but i was expecting it to point to:
> “c:/Users/xah/”.
>
> can anyone know why? Is this just a emacsW32 quirk or is this supposed
> to be that way? Is this just a Windows env var that i didn't set, or
> is it some emacs setup? (am not familiar with windows env var or
> cmd.exe)
>
> am asking because i have many init files and elisp functions that take
> a path, and on unix ~ is user home root.
>
> thanks.
>
> Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄
You can go to Control panel / System / Advanced / Environment Variables
and edit the HOME variable to make it C:\Users\xah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-05 19:30 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 [this message]
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
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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