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RE: [h-e-w] Re: How to tell (windows) emacs which ftp.exe, ediff.exe,gre


From: Davis, Iain E.
Subject: RE: [h-e-w] Re: How to tell (windows) emacs which ftp.exe, ediff.exe,grep.exe... files to use
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:13:25 -0600

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mason, Michael M [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Wednesday, 2003 March 05 5:02
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [h-e-w] Re: How to tell (windows) emacs which 
> ftp.exe, ediff.exe,grep.exe... files to use
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Leake [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: 04 March 2003 18:07
> > "Michael R. Wolf" <address@hidden> writes:
> > > instead of Win2000.  I think this is better for my Unix brain.  
> > > Perhaps it's not.  I've still got to resolve the double 
> meanings of 
> > > tilde (~)
> > >  1 - c:\                        # WinDOS perspective
> > 
> > Do you mean Windows places some meaning on "~" in a
> > path/file name?  I've never seen that.
> 
> I don't think Windows understands "~" at all.  However, if 
> you don't have a HOME environment variable set, Emacs will 
> use "C:\" as the default for "~".

I thought Emacs substituted the value of HOME for ~.




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