From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir? Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:30:17 -0500 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244230884 491 80.91.229.12 (5 Jun 2009 19:41:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 19:41:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 05 21:41:22 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 1MCfI2-00083d-65 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:41:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44243 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCfI1-0000Qp-Ne for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:41:21 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!backlog2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:29:46 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs In-Reply-To: <6377028f-938f-47b5-86a6-3f4034244d5b@h2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> Original-Lines: 23 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.131.204 Original-X-Trace: sv3-Dd6yFRMo8vi2+7aeQvA52ZV0Pvk986kejeNWVF42GB0zkt+hSVvYvNZruQPoCAEBcXC11J2KtQfh3sQ!mT9m6adnqIAoxXnGJFsXpxpZm1vJUqDrVM5r8Jk/WHxbEAJ4hPV2DvCYGsi155/ZgXCNOhL6BeFJ!wNzP5npkvnRN/b7PlY56k0n0mW+EMU4= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 X-Original-Bytes: 1984 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169748 comp.emacs:98213 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:64977 Archived-At: 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