Windows home directory
Paul Derbyshire
derbyshire@globalserve.net
Mon Aug 5 21:09:00 GMT 2002
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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