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Re: visiting "~/Application Data" gets "~" instead


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: visiting "~/Application Data" gets "~" instead
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:54:23 +0300

> From: Eric Hanchrow <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:37:49 -0700
> 
> But it does affect expand-file-name:
> 
>     (getenv "HOME")
>     "/home/erich"
>     (expand-file-name "~")
>     "/home/erich"
>     (setenv "HOME" "squawk")
>     "squawk"
>     (expand-file-name "~")
>     "squawk"

Maybe this is the bug: maybe setting HOME shouldn't affect
expand-file-name.  (Although I admit that it sounds quite unusual to
me that someone would like to redirect HOME from within Emacs.)




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