I suppose that is a fix for some people; it is a regression for me...
In fact, it'd be better if GHC/GHCi would do what Emacs on Windows does: use HOME if defined, else use ShGetFolderPath to find the Windows-defined "home directory".
in the interest of backwards-compatibility, perhaps. but as the links i gave should demonstrate, there is no %HOME% on windows, unless you invent it. most users who define %HOME% probably mean it to override the system standard %HOMEPATH%, at least in those programs that look for %HOME%. but that is a guess that would need to be documented for each of those programs, and makes them different from the majority of code on that platform. and not looking for %HOMEPATH% if there's no %HOME% is always a bug. if you absolutely want to define a %HOME%, and you also absolutely want to keep it different from %HOMEPATH% (which means you have two homes to take care of!), then you could try a simple workaround: %HOMEPATH%\.ghci: :cmd System.Environment.getEnv "HOME" >>= \h->readFile (h++"/.ghci") %HOME\.ghci -- as before claus