Re: About HOME in OS X

[Kevin Montuori]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013, at 7:22, Xue Fuqiao wrote:

>   ELISP> (getenv "HOME")
>   "/Users/xfq"
>   ELISP> (expand-file-name "$HOME/foo")
>   
> "/Users/xfq/emacs-repo/bzr/trunk/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/$HOME/foo"
> 
> I'm confused here.  Why don't the result of two evaluations be the same?

Nothing in expand-file-name's documentation would lead me to expect it
to expand an environment variable (prefixed with $ or otherwise).  I
think what you probably want is (expand-file-name "~/foo").

k.

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