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RE: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect |
Date: |
Sat, 6 Jan 2007 14:42:45 -0800 |
> > I see. To tell the truth, I didn't bother to change $HOME
> > outside Emacs and start emacs -Q again to test the case other
> > than HOME = "c:\\". I did try using `setenv' to change "HOME",
> > but that apparently doesn't have an effect here.
>
> setenv only manipulates the environment that is passed to child
> processes, but does not modify Emacs's own environment.
Right. That's what I concluded, after your first explanation.
The `setenv' doc string does speak of `process-environment', but I think it
wouldn't hurt to explicitly point out that the current environment that
Emacs itself sees is not affected.
> > How about mentioning in the doc string that "~" is not
> > substituted for the user's home dir if that is the root.
> > ("/" in Unix or Linux, "<drive-letter>:\" in Windows)?
>
> Done.
Thx.
- abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect, Drew Adams, 2007/01/06
- Re: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/01/06
- Re: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/01/06
- RE: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect, Drew Adams, 2007/01/06
- Re: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/01/06
- RE: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect, Miles Bader, 2007/01/06
- Re: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/01/06
- Re: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect, Stephen Leake, 2007/01/07
- Re: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/01/07
- RE: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect, Drew Adams, 2007/01/07
- RE: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect, Drew Adams, 2007/01/07
- Re: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect, Chris Moore, 2007/01/07
- RE: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect, Drew Adams, 2007/01/07
- Re: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect, Jason Rumney, 2007/01/08
- RE: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect, Drew Adams, 2007/01/08