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From: "Paul Derbyshire" <derbyshire AT globalserve DOT net>
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Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 00:11:08 -0400
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Subject: Re: Windows home directory
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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.)



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