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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#8220: 24.0.50; (On Windows XP) "c:\_emacs" isn't found during startup
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:25:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vczpucf2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D79B973.6000508@gnu.org>

> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:56:03 +0800
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> Cc: 
> 
> On 11/03/2011 10:35, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> 
> > makes this less than clear-cut, and in fact, the order in which
> > [._]emacs is searched (I'm ignoring ~/.emacs.d/init.el) is
> >
> >    %HOME%\.emacs
> >    %HOME%\_emacs
> >    C:\.emacs
> >    %APPDATA%\.emacs
> >    %APPDATA%\_emacs
> >    
> 
> More accurately, if %HOME% is set explicitly, then init files are 
> searched there.
> Otherwise if c:\.emacs exists, then %HOME% is implicitly set to C:\ (for 
> backwards compatibility with older versions)
> Otherwise %HOME% is implicitly set to the user's Application Data 
> directory, obtained through system calls.

I tried to explain this algorithm in the manual in more user-friendly
terms.  Please take a look (posted in another mail in bug #8221).





      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-11 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-10 20:40 bug#8220: 24.0.50; (On Windows XP) "c:\_emacs" isn't found during startup Dani Moncayo
2011-03-11  2:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-11  5:56   ` Jason Rumney
2011-03-11  6:42     ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-11  9:33       ` Dani Moncayo
2011-03-11 11:23         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-11 11:25     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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