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Re: Defining directory ~/ on MS-Windows
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Defining directory ~/ on MS-Windows |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Nov 2004 06:44:49 +0200 |
> 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.
> I'm using Emacs from CVS (21.3.50.1) on Windows XP SP2.
On Windows XP, environment variables are set thru the Control Panel.