Re: Beginner emacs / SLIME / ACL / ASDF question

You can define a home variable:
R-Clk on My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Environment Variables,
then add a new one in System variables list
where the the name is 'Home' and the path is the one you define based
on your liking.

once i did this, most gnu ported app. used that variable.

so if you tried to do the above, and then tried to open a file in emacs
using ~/ , it will try to slurp that file from the path set in HOME
var.

and by the way, check this link (specially the blog) and search for
'windows'
http://bc.tech.coop/


Regards

cmo-0

Unknownmat wrote:
Darren New wrote:
Sacha wrote:
Thanks for the response. XP does not have a concept of Home Folder,
but I *think* that C: is the default.

On a standard install that would be :
c:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\

Well, Windows lacks a specific "home" concept as such. That points to a
collection of directories that have specific uses - temp directories,
files on the local machine, files that should roam with the user
profile, cache directories, etc. So in practice there's no concept of
"*A* home directory" because having only one such directory is rather
limiting. But if you actually learn and use the appropriate mechanisms,
you get good support from the OS.


Darren - I just meant that I personally find it frustrating to use
Unix-orginated tools (such as GNU, and many CL implementations) due to
difficulties in mapping Unix filesystem / configuration idioms onto a
Windows filesystem.

If you are aware of any "appropriate mechanisms" to assist in this,
then I would be interested to hear your thoughts.

I hadn't meant to specifically criticize XP.

.

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