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Re: Defining directory ~/ on MS-Windows


From: graham
Subject: Re: Defining directory ~/ on MS-Windows
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 13:56:23 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt)

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: graham@gorgeous.org
>> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:34:12 +0000
>> 
>> On MS-Windows Emacs understands paths like ~/foo.txt.  It converts
>> this to c:\foo.txt.  I would like it to convert it to 
>> c:\Documents and Settings\My User Name\foo.txt instead, like XEmacs does.
>> 
>> How can this be done?
>
> "~" is a short for %HOME%.  So, if you define the environment variable
> HOME whose value is "c:\Documents and Settings\Your User Name", you
> will get what you want.


Thanks, this did the trick.


Graham


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