Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Paul Derbyshire" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 00:11:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Windows home directory Reply-to: derbyshire@globalserve.net Message-ID: <3D4F141C.17007.8080EBD1@localhost> References: <200208031452.HAA18741@ca.sandia.gov> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body On 3 Aug 2002 at 11:55, Michael Hoffman wrote: > On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, friedman_hill ernest j wrote: > > > how many people actually use their Windows "home directory" as their > > Cygwin home? > > I do, spaces and all, without incident that I can remember. I set up a > symlink /home/grouse -> /home/Michael\ Hoffman for some reason. Maybe I > was having some kind of incident at one point. :-) Shit, why didn't I think of that? :P ...goes to make a symlink ...hmm, but I can't make ~ refer to the symlink painlessly can I? But if I can then I don't have to worry about my editor forgetting all the files in my project because their existing path names will still be valid. (It remembers the most recent 20-odd files opened and where the insertion point was in them and other handy stuff.) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/