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changeset 70393:aebd19f066dd
(File Names): Add a footnote about limited support of ~USER on MS-Windows.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 05 May 2006 11:45:55 +0000 |
| parents | 410da5f62040 |
| children | 55791d77fcb3 |
| files | man/files.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/files.texi Fri May 05 11:45:30 2006 +0000 +++ b/man/files.texi Fri May 05 11:45:55 2006 +0000 @@ -107,10 +107,13 @@ @cindex home directory shorthand You can use @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}. (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}.) +login name is @code{user-id}@footnote{ +On MS-Windows and MS-DOS 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}. The +@file{~@var{user-id}/} construct is supported on those systems only +for the current user, i.e., only if @var{user-id} is the current +user's login name.}. @cindex environment variables in file names @cindex expansion of environment variables