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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: Björn Lindqvist <bjourne <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#27589: closed (Re: bug#27589: Wrong documentation for .emacs
 lookup on Windows)
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2017 06:48:01 +0000

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Your bug report

#27589: Wrong documentation for .emacs lookup on Windows

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 27589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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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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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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