Andy Piper wrote:
At 09:30 PM 5/17/98 -0400, David Bush wrote:
>The question is where should this be fixed? The comments in fileio.c
indicate
>that ~foo and ~ should be equivalent if foo is the curent user - at least
>in the Windows NT case. The other possibility is to modify the behavior
>of init-file-user so it is set only if the -u option is used. I've
>looked for other uses of init-file-user and don't see them, but I have
>only a limited set of packages installed.
Be aware that the cygwin version does not build with WINDOWSNT defined. If
there are things that need to be migrated to cygwin then there needs to be
a __CYGWIN32__ in there somewhere. A case in point is the path handling
code - the cygwin version currently doesn't grok drive letters or //foo/bar
type paths. I am undecided as to whethe this is a good thing or not. I
still prefer what we have to the way NTemacs operates in this area but
understanding // would be nice.
It seems to be that the more flexibility the better. This also raises
the question of DOS style path separators. I'll look, but this may be
more of a 21.1 feature with that many changes. The home directory
problem does need fixing now.
Thanks for your comments, I'll see what I can do.
david