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Re: About HOME in OS X
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: About HOME in OS X |
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Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:20:54 -0400 |
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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.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Re: About HOME in OS X, Peter Dyballa, 2013/06/11
Re: About HOME in OS X, Kevin Montuori, 2013/06/11