blue today

[Eric S. Johansson]

reply to the list as well

On 2/7/2011 8:59 AM, Jeff Sparkes wrote:
> Which version of windows and which version of xemacs? I don't have %HOME% set, 
> but xemacs-21.5.29 expands ~ to my login directory on both Windows XP and 
> Windows Server 2008.  However, on XP it doesn't set the HOME env variable.
XEmacs version 21.5.29 as well.

It seems to think the home directory is c:\windows\system32\ which is kind of 
weird. Unless maybe it's because I'm starting off of the shortcuts menu. I tried 
~ and it ends up at the right directory (c:\Users\esj

(expand-file-name "~")
"c:\\Users\\esj"

yet when I did that before, it didn't work with or without the home directory.  
that's very weird.

Question 1) why is it waking up in the system 32 drectory?
Question 2) how do I fix that problem (and yes, I do consider it a problem)
question 3) where will my .xemacs directory end up? System 32 or ~/  (tested and 
found ~/ )


>
> ;; Windows Server 2008
> (getenv "HOME")
> "C:\\Users\\jsparkes"
> (expand-file-name "~")
> "c:\\Users\\jsparkes"
> ;; WIndows XP
> (getenv "HOME")
> nil
> (expand-file-name "~")
> "c:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator"
>
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Eric S. Johansson <esj at harvee.org 
> <mailto:esj at harvee.org>> wrote:
>
>     wasted Quite a bit of time today trying to track down a problem (which I still
>     haven't found). This is not a bitch but I will try to collate information so
>     that the next person installing a Windows 32 version will have an easier
>     time at it.
>
>     I think the problems I'm experiencing come simply from the inability for X.
>     Emacs to find certain files. For example, HOME was not defined. So I
>     defined it
>     in the Windows environment and think still in work right. For example in
>     the shell
>
>     c:\Windows\system32>echo %HOME%
>     echo %HOME%
>     \Users\esj\My Documents\
>
>     Home has been set but not used properly when invoking the shell
>
>     and in the *Scratch* buffer:
>
>     (expand-file-name "~")
>     "c:\\Windows\\system32\\Users\\esj\\My Documents\\"
>
>     All the other problem but having smell like something similar, that I'm
>     missing
>     various pathnames. I did finally find the note about mingw executables for all
>     these subordinate tools like grep as well is libraries for image management.
>
>     Where can I find the definition of expand-file-name so  I can  look and
>     see what
>     it's doing and what might be wrong.
>
>     ---eric
>
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> -- 
> Jeff Sparkes
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