windows and home path

Andrea Crotti andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 11:18:05 EST 2012


On 01/24/2012 04:09 PM, Jerry Hill wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Jerry Hill<malaclypse2 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> So, my guess is that emacs is mangling your HOME environment variable.
>>   That appears to be confirmed by the emacs documentation here:
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/General-Variables.html#General-Variables
> I know, it's bad form to follow up to my own email, but here's a more
> concrete reference stating that emacs will set HOME  when emacs
> starts: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Windows-HOME.html
>
> "[Wherever Emacs finds your .emacs file], Emacs sets the value of the
> HOME environment variable to point to it, and it will use that
> location for other files and directories it normally creates in the
> user's home directory. "
>

I see well that explains everything, because I did set up my emacs 
configuration there..
Anyway since any application can change the home I probably will only 
rely on HOMEPATH,
which seems a safer approach..



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