From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help to view .doc files with no-word.el & antiword please Date: 25 Aug 2009 12:20:17 GMT Message-ID: References: <25102080.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251204139 6081 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2009 12:42:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:42:19 +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 Aug 25 14:42:12 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 1MfvLn-0000qr-OK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:42:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39692 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfvLn-0007Ry-5b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:42:11 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: individual.net P7jSJeIs7OpTOencovMzvQKkoXhT4KbTK8yt+R3+zJZzv5LG/e Cancel-Lock: sha1:1d5wRzIABFhJ8S9pQVumits6byo= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9 (Linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172360 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:67498 Archived-At: rpd wrote: > > Joost > Thanks for your further advice but when I try M-x no-word-find-file > > I get this error message: > I can't open '~/Charliemissing.doc' for reading > > (am I in the right directory? it should be C:\Users\Dad\Charliemissing.doc) > > Anymore ideas? emacs on windows (at least vista, haven't tried other versions) thinks a user's home directory is "C:\Users\\Application Data\some_subdir" for some reason i don't understand. so the tilde character ~ expands to that, not to C:\Users\, as one might expect. if you type the full path to the file, it should work. (or, IMHO the better option, create a HOME environment variable and set it to "C:\Users\". google should have info on how to do that.) -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)