From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir?
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 04:56:56 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a7a69fb1-20c5-4ee6-95a1-00b0c5c38010@z9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.138.1244366348.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Jun 7, 2:19 am, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Xah Lee<xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jun 5, 6:12 pm, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> > From: Xah Lee <xah...@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.
>
> > Thanks all.
>
> > Setting Windows's env var HOME to c:\Users\xah helped. However, it
> > seems that when emacs starts as server/client, it still loads from “c:/
> > Users/xah/AppData/Roaming/”.
>
> It should work the same. Perhaps you need to restart your pc?
restart Windows took care of it. Thannks Len.
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
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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
[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 [this message]
2009-06-06 13:26 ` Jason Rumney
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