From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#22875: 24.5; HOME-variable not resolve in Win7 Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:39:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <837fhm6j9u.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481143219 26855 195.159.176.226 (7 Dec 2016 20:40:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 20:40:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) To: 22875-done@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 07 21:40:15 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cEj0f-0006Ek-8H for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 21:40:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41901 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEj0i-0005rA-TI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:40:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39274) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEj0Z-0005p5-Vo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:40:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEj0U-0006bH-C2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:40:08 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44881) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEj0U-0006b7-8y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:40:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cEj0U-000440-3R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:40:02 -0500 Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 20:40:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 22875 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Mail-Followup-To: 22875@debbugs.gnu.org, rgm@gnu.org, reimer.studt@haw-landshut.de Original-Received: via spool by 22875-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D22875.148114319715596 (code D ref 22875); Wed, 07 Dec 2016 20:40:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 22875-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Dec 2016 20:39:57 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60279 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cEj0P-00043U-Id for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:39:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48246) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cEj0O-00043H-C6 for 22875-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:39:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEj0I-0006Z0-Nk for 22875-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:39:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56550) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEj0I-0006Yw-K7 for 22875-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:39:50 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cEj0I-0004k7-6C; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:39:50 -0500 X-Spook: LLNL Contamination hackers Echelon Nationalist UNSCOM X-Ran: 5,1^'^_V|u8O`B%&Vs.RMG'%9YOPTikm'so{H#ugX[.V;.aDCf~D;2s![BB8YC65Z\,1%+ X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <837fhm6j9u.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 01 Mar 2016 22:22:05 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:126695 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > The feature you expected is not supported. Environment variables are > only expanded at startup if they are found in the Registry, not in the > shell's environment. > > How did you define such a value for an environment variable? If I try > defining HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% from the cmd prompt, cmd expands > the 2 variables, and the same if I defined HOME from the Computer's > Properties' "Advanced" tab. So I'm not sure how you get into this > situation. Can you explain? No response in months, closing.