From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About HOME in OS X Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:20:54 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370975814 17334 80.91.229.3 (11 Jun 2013 18:36:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:36:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 11 20:36:55 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UmTR7-0004FG-SV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:36:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37940 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmTR7-0002cc-H9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:36:53 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="28189"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+BWtTz4nahsWryxM/rAfPK" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Cq8+dM9DKgeh8bWJk73YnQwzapY= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199197 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:36:35 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91463 Archived-At: In article , Peter Dyballa wrote: > Am 11.06.2013 um 18:45 schrieb Barry Margolin: > > > "$HOME/foo" is a relative path > > $HOME is a variable that holds an *absolute* path. (It starts with "/", the > root of the file system.) But you carefully snipped the part where I pointed out that expand-file-name doesn't do variable substitution. So it's not a variable, it's a relative pathname that begins with the literal string "$HOME". That's why the result ends with "$HOME/foo" -- nothing was substituted. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***