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

[Mason, Michael M]

> -----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 "~".

-- 
Michael