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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Huh?  I thought we had agreed to use %USERPROFILE% instead (which is
>> usually closer to Unix's $HOME).
> %USERPROFILE% is not defined on some versions of Windows, and it is not one
> of the standard locations available through system calls. No other Windows
> application writes directly in this directory, as there are standard
> subdirectories for various purposes (available through system calls) such as
> storing Application Data, the user's documents, etc. Application Data seemed
> the most appropriate of these for Emacs' config files and the
> .emacs.d directory.

But I thought the discussion on this list concluded at the very least that
"Application Data" wasn't such a good choice for ~.  It may be good for
~/.emacs¸ but ~ is used for a lot more.  E.g. It's used to access your files
and things like that.  I guess you can use ~/../Desktop, but it's
rather non-obvious.

%USERPROFILE% may not be perfect, but it generally has the desirable
property of being the longest common prefix of the various other
interesting places.


        Stefan