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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2001-02-23 11:27:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2001-02-23 11:27:08 +0000 |
| commit | c6b8d92a1f12b39224057fc7c9233f2d9ce8d1ad (patch) | |
| tree | 013ca21ca8cee5fa959016e4e13b577f5f00c2bf /man/files.texi | |
| parent | 3d85335156de38fb62d56131b65052d1aba8a2da (diff) | |
| download | emacs-c6b8d92a1f12b39224057fc7c9233f2d9ce8d1ad.tar.gz | |
(File Names): Add a note about ~/ peculiarities on DOS/Windows.
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diff --git a/man/files.texi b/man/files.texi index 4fbf945c38b..b028e4d20b6 100644 --- a/man/files.texi +++ b/man/files.texi @@ -112,7 +112,10 @@ done before Emacs is started. @cindex home directory shorthand You can use the @file{~/} in a file name to mean your home directory, or @file{~@var{user-id}/} to mean the home directory of a user whose -login name is @code{user-id}. +login name is @code{user-id}. (On DOS and Windows systems, where a user +doesn't have a home directory, Emacs substitutes @file{~/} with the +value of the environment variable @code{HOME}; see @ref{General +Variables}.) To access a file with @samp{$} in its name, type @samp{$$}. This pair is converted to a single @samp{$} at the same time as variable |