Subject: bug#27589: Wrong documentation for .emacs lookup on Windows

From: Björn Lindqvist <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 18:16:21 +0200

Oops, forgot to mention version 24.5.1. Also if I try to open the file
"c:/Users/bjorn/AppData/Roaming/.emacs" something weird happens and Emacs
redirects me to the file "c:/Users/bjorn/.emacs" instead.

2017-07-05 18:08 GMT+02:00 Björn Lindqvist <[email-masked]>:

> Information in these pages is incorrect:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/
> Windows-HOME.html
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq-
> w32/Location-of-init-file.html
>
> In my case .emacs is at "C:\Users\bjorn\AppData\Roaming\.emacs" Emacs
> does not set the value of the HOME variable to that location:
>
> (getenv "HOME")
> "C:\\Users\\bjorn"
>
> And "Within Emacs, <~> at the beginning of a file name is expanded to your
> HOME directory, so you can always find your .emacs file by typing the
> command C-x C-f ~/.emacs." is therefore not true:
>
> (expand-file-name "~/.emacs")
> "c:/Users/bjorn/.emacs"
>
>
> --
> mvh/best regards Björn Lindqvist
>

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mvh/best regards Björn Lindqvist