From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@member.fsf.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:29:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1wm6gbam.fsf@member.fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uac0vzd8d.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 07 Jan 2007 06:12:50 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Cc: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
>> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:44:10 +0900
>>
>> In particular, doing (setenv "foo" ...) allows $foo to be used when
>> visiting files (i.e. substitute-in-file-name sees it),
This works on Windows (at least for me).
This is very convenient; the files Emacs finds via environment
variables is the same as the files that subprocesses find via the same
environment variables, even when those environment variables are set
from within Emacs. So I can change what I'm working on without leaving
Emacs.
>> and doing (setenv "HOME" ...) changes how expand-file-name expands
>> a tilde.
This does not happen on Windows (for me). I don't have a non-Windows
emacs handy to try.
It seems appropriate for Emacs to "latch" the value of $HOME at
startup, so the location of .emacs doesn't change, for example. There
are other files that are located in $HOME as well; you don't want them
moving around either.
But it is inconsistent with the handling of other environment variables.
>> If this doesn't happen in windows, it seems like a bug...
>
> I tried, and it does happen on Windows, of course.
Which of the two tests did you try?
--
-- Stephe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-07 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-06 7:56 abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect Drew Adams
2007-01-06 11:37 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-06 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-06 15:03 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-06 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-06 16:22 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-06 21:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-06 22:42 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-07 2:44 ` Miles Bader
2007-01-07 4:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-07 14:29 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2007-01-07 20:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-07 22:03 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-07 22:08 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-08 1:40 ` Chris Moore
2007-01-08 2:04 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-08 10:15 ` Jason Rumney
2007-01-08 16:29 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-09 0:01 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-09 0:30 ` Jason Rumney
2007-01-09 12:55 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-09 17:57 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-08 8:44 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-08 13:07 ` Chris Moore
2007-01-08 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-09 12:52 ` Stephen Leake
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