Re: visiting "~/Application Data" gets "~" instead

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:00:08 -0400
> Cc: Eric Hanchrow <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> But I thought the discussion on this list concluded at the very least that
> "Application Data" wasn't such a good choice for ~.  It may be good for
> ~/.emacs¸ but ~ is used for a lot more.  E.g. It's used to access your files
> and things like that.

What files ``and things like that'' are those?  If they are related to
Emacs (and CSIDL_APPDATA is set to HOME _only_ by Emacs for its own
use), then that's a very reasonable use of "Application Data", IMO.

> %USERPROFILE% may not be perfect, but it generally has the desirable
> property of being the longest common prefix of the various other
> interesting places.

And what to do for versions of Windows where that place doesn't exist?