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From: rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Roland Roberts)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: absolute paths in GNU emacs (18.55 vax-vms)
Summary: Theme et variation found in VMS
Message-ID: <5488@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 90 16:24:49 GMT
References: <9002240247.AA13575@brauer.harvard.edu> <1990Feb26.175514.10768@oracle.com>
Reply-To: rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Roland Roberts)
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In article <1990Feb26.175514.10768@oracle.com> nhess@dvlseq.oracle.com
(Nate Hess) writes:

>.... You just expect Emacs to expand the "~" for you.  A way to have
>this done is to do something like:
>
>	(setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/emacs/lisp") load-path))
>
>nhess@oracle.com or ...!uunet!oracle!nhess or (415) 598-3046

Unfortunately, this doesn't work on VMS.  You get the following:

	(expand-file-name "~/emacs/")
	"user$disk2:[roberts]EMACS:"
	(expand-file-name "~/public/cd/")
	"user$disk2:[roberts]PUBLIC:[CD]"

This just means I have to put in the explicit path, which is no big
deal for setting the load-path, but it is a pain that find-file will
accept "~/file-name" but not "~/subdir/file-name".  One has to use the
mixed notation "~/[.subdir]file-name".

roland
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