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Wrong documentation for .emacs lookup on Windows

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27589: closed (Wrong documentation for .emacs lookup on Windows)
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2017 06:48:01 +0000

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From: Björn Lindqvist <bjourne <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Wrong documentation for .emacs lookup on Windows
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 18:08:23 +0200

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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"


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mvh/best regards Björn Lindqvist

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Björn Lindqvist <bjourne <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 27589-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27589: Wrong documentation for .emacs lookup on Windows
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2017 09:47:29 +0300

> From: Björn Lindqvist <bjourne <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 00:09:26 +0200
> Cc: 27589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Sorry, this was a PEBKAC. I had used (setenv "HOME" (concat (getenv "HOMEDRIVE") (getenv
> "HOMEPATH"))) to set the HOME environment variable from within emacs which I now understand is a
> terrible idea.

Thanks, I'm therefore closing the bug report.

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