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Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir? |
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Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:12:08 -0400 |
> From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs
> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:52:53 -0700 (PDT)
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> in emacsW32 on Windows, “~/” points to
> “c:/Users/xah/AppData/Roaming/”
> but i was expecting it to point to:
> “c:/Users/xah/”.
It is supposed to point by default to whatever CSIDL_APPDATA is set to
on that machine. That is, to the `Application Data' subdirectory of
your user profile directory. Setting HOME in the environment
overrides that. If Emacs does not behave like that, it's a bug that
should be reported.