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

[Xah Lee]

On Jun 7, 2:19 am, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Xah Lee<xah...@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?

restart Windows took care of it. Thannks Len.

  Xah
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