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


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: Emacs on Windows, isn't ~ supposed to be home dir?
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 06:26:35 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jun 6, 1:52 am, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> in emacsW32 on Windows,  “~/” points to
> “c:/Users/xah/AppData/Roaming/”
> but i was expecting it to point to:
> “c:/Users/xah/”.

c:\Users\xah is not guaranteed to be writable by the user xah. The
directory pointed to by Windows system variable CSIDL_APPDATA is.


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