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

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Xah Lee<xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 5, 6:12 pm, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
>> > From: Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com>
>> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs
>> > Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:52:53 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>> > 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.
>
> Thanks all.
>
> Setting Windows's env var HOME to c:\Users\xah helped. However, it
> seems that when emacs starts as server/client, it still loads from “c:/
> Users/xah/AppData/Roaming/”.

It should work the same. Perhaps you need to restart your pc?