Re: About HOME in OS X

[Xue Fuqiao]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> On my system (OS X 10.8.4):
>
>   ELISP> (getenv "HOME")
>   "/Users/xfq"
>   ELISP> (expand-file-name "$HOME/foo")
>   
> "/Users/xfq/emacs-repo/bzr/trunk/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/$HOME/foo"
>
> I'm confused here.  Why don't the result of two evaluations be the same?

Hmm... The following expression works properly:
  (expand-file-name (substitute-in-file-name "$HOME/foo"))

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Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.