Re: About HOME in OS X

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.1410.1370970844.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote:

> Am 11.06.2013 um 18:45 schrieb Barry Margolin:
> 
> > "$HOME/foo" is a relative path
> 
> $HOME is a variable that holds an *absolute* path. (It starts with "/", the 
> root of the file system.)

But you carefully snipped the part where I pointed out that 
expand-file-name doesn't do variable substitution. So it's not a 
variable, it's a relative pathname that begins with the literal string 
"$HOME". That's why the result ends with "$HOME/foo" -- nothing was 
substituted.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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