bug#22875: 24.5; HOME-variable not resolve in Win7

[Studt Reimer]

 

On start-up of emacs, the .emacs file could not be loaded, because emacs

resolved the Windows HOME variable to *exactly* how it was defined. That

was the text %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%. Emacs could not resolve these two

variables. The workaround for me was to manually change the HOME

variable to the absolute path (and to resolve the two variables %HOMEDRIVE% and %HOMEPATH% and restart windows.

 

 

 

In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)

of 2015-04-11 on LEG570

Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601

Configured using:

`configure --prefix=/c/usr --host=i686-pc-mingw32'

 

Important settings:

  value of $LANG: DEU

  locale-coding-system: cp1252

 

Major mode: Fundamental

 

Minor modes in effect:

  tooltip-mode: t

  electric-indent-mode: t

  mouse-wheel-mode: t

  tool-bar-mode: t

  menu-bar-mode: t

  file-name-shadow-mode: t

  global-font-lock-mode: t

  blink-cursor-mode: t

  auto-composition-mode: t

  auto-encryption-mode: t

  auto-compression-mode: t

  buffer-read-only: t

  line-number-mode: t

  transient-mark-mode: t

 

Recent messages:

For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

 

Load-path shadows:

None found.

 

Features:

(shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml

easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231

mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums

mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date tooltip electric

uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp

w32-common-fns disp-table w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image

regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register

page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock

font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang

misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew

greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese

case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice

loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay

sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget

hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process w32notify w32

multi-tty emacs)

 

Memory information:

((conses 8 75908 6759)

(symbols 32 17433 0)

(miscs 32 73 127)

(strings 16 10713 4029)

(string-bytes 1 279807)

(vectors 8 8926)

(vector-slots 4 382520 5128)

(floats 8 56 203)

(intervals 28 246 36)

(buffers 508 13))