At 01:46 AM 5/28/98 +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
The question is whether (shell-command "cat ~/foo") will
show you the
same file as `C-x C-f ~/foo RET' when the registry's idea of the
user's home directory differs from what is contained in $HOME.
Under cygwin I don't think the registry setting should have the highest
priority. bash doesn't use it and the problem is that you could have a
correctly set up bash and xemacs which both have different ideas about
HOME. The registry should be the fallback IMHO.
andy
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