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24.5; HOME-variable not resolve in Win7

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To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22875: closed (24.5; HOME-variable not resolve in Win7)
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 20:40:01 +0000

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From: Studt Reimer <reimer.studt <at> haw-landshut.de>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 24.5; HOME-variable not resolve in Win7
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 19:38:18 +0000

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On start-up of emacs, the .emacs file could not be loaded, because emacs
resolved the Windows HOME variable to *exactly* how it was defined. That
was the text %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%. Emacs could not resolve these two
variables. The workaround for me was to manually change the HOME
variable to the absolute path (and to resolve the two variables %HOMEDRIVE% and %HOMEPATH% and restart windows.



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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 22875-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22875: 24.5; HOME-variable not resolve in Win7
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:39:50 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> The feature you expected is not supported.  Environment variables are
> only expanded at startup if they are found in the Registry, not in the
> shell's environment.
>
> How did you define such a value for an environment variable?  If I try
> defining HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% from the cmd prompt, cmd expands
> the 2 variables, and the same if I defined HOME from the Computer's
> Properties' "Advanced" tab.  So I'm not sure how you get into this
> situation.  Can you explain?

No response in months, closing.

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