From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir? Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 23:29:59 +0200 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244237435 19299 80.91.229.12 (5 Jun 2009 21:30:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 21:30:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "B. T. Raven" , Xah Lee Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 05 23:30:31 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 1MCgzc-0000Ag-Nm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:30:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44846 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCgzc-00063Y-4C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:30:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCgzG-00063S-Nc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:30:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCgzB-00063E-BR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:30:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44665 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCgzB-00063B-5x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:30:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f217.google.com ([209.85.220.217]:42133) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MCgzA-0004gP-VS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:30:01 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so1956416fxm.42 for ; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:29:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=G5G0KhytJS8JKH4CIJO/tsDjmIs+Bpc/C1057ZwnqAw=; b=mnsRzhzINT8cSJzkeZdrxuGX95XjVMBE92m28xIjrknlO3XSDhk4hmvG3LhJu8swVk l6FoEDBL80F/vPrld62NSLWDryAv6TkGzyarTnzGDXcAOIR3j+VqTLMYl/ycYk2Tjv5T ZE9qE5VeHlW1KMSX9A+0s+VH9jNBw/XTv0kMk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=sL3ka1QidaDsToaFPuRzYoWGTBC369D3j0m/nx+Pe4rj7/GTAYf8fuJzzKgwuP7zdk QedCsJlDQxNCz6/5tX4BQG3nlqWLIs0IbupQwYYTcUxH4n3nNIXR+oXaX0VuuH5d55Ck wFxa4zoYr4WhH/tstWVyhmGKoNdygKTWhyvfg= Original-Received: by 10.239.167.212 with SMTP id h20mr318726hbe.68.1244237399691; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:29:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:64980 Archived-At: On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:30 PM, B. T. Raven wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: >> >> in emacsW32 on Windows, =C2=A0=E2=80=9C~/=E2=80=9D points to >> =E2=80=9Cc:/Users/xah/AppData/Roaming/=E2=80=9D >> but i was expecting it to point to: >> =E2=80=9Cc:/Users/xah/=E2=80=9D. >> >> 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. It should be on Windows too. Xah, could you please download the unpatched version and see if you get the same problem there? I am not aware of that I have done something special in Emacs+EmacsW32, but just in case... >> thanks. >> >> =C2=A0Xah >> =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ >> >> =E2=98=84 > > You can go to Control panel / System / Advanced / Environment Variables > and edit the HOME variable to make it C:\Users\xah >