Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir?

[B. T. Raven]

Xah Lee wrote:
> in emacsW32 on Windows,  “~/” points to
> “c:/Users/xah/AppData/Roaming/”
> but i was expecting it to point to:
> “c:/Users/xah/”.
>
> 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.
>
> thanks.
>
>   Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄

You can go to Control panel / System / Advanced / Environment Variables
and edit the HOME variable to make it C:\Users\xah