From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jaydutt Shukla Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: HOME variable Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:01:08 -0400 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <41412704.8030606@wam.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094788947 10013 80.91.224.253 (10 Sep 2004 04:02:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:02:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 10 06:02:19 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C5cc7-0007nm-00 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 06:02:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5chT-0007X5-AN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:07:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C5chS-0007Wu-7c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:07:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C5chP-0007WE-Vv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5chP-0007Vq-SK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:07:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [128.8.10.162] (helo=po0.wam.umd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C5cb3-0001ap-NI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:01:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [128.8.8.47] (vpn-8-47.umd.edu [128.8.8.47]) by po0.wam.umd.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8A41Aq8028853 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:01:11 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:8983 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:8983 This is not a bug but I did not know where else to report it. Emacs (v21.3) uses the HOME variable as its root folder and in the installation instructions suggest using c:\Emacs as the root folder. This implies that I have to set HOME to be equal to "C:\Emacs" This is okay but when other programs also need the HOME variable it causes problem. For example, I just installed Cygwin on my computer and it uses c:\Emacs as its starting directory, which is very annoying because I expected it to start either in c:\ or c:\%USERPROFILE%\. Users can always work aroung by changing directory (manually or using scripts) but that is not a good approach. So I suggest using the variable EMACSHOME or something that would associate it with Emacs unambiguously. Thanks Jaydutt Shukla