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Re: About HOME in OS X
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Kevin Montuori |
Subject: |
Re: About HOME in OS X |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:30:20 -0400 |
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013, at 7:22, Xue Fuqiao wrote:
> 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?
Nothing in expand-file-name's documentation would lead me to expect it
to expand an environment variable (prefixed with $ or otherwise). I
think what you probably want is (expand-file-name "~/foo").
k.
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Re: About HOME in OS X, Peter Dyballa, 2013/06/11
Re: About HOME in OS X,
Kevin Montuori <=