From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'yary' <not.com@gmail.com>, 11612@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:50:49 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zk8j7n1i.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <91E1E14DBB414F068939D2843B343E69@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 2 Jun 2012 12:46:57 -0700")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> Could the warning message "Setting HOME to C:\ by default is
>> deprecated" also include "Move .emacs out from C:\"
>
> There is nothing wrong with having .emacs in c:\.
>
> IIUC, this change is about Emacs not looking in c:\ _by default_. It is not
> about discouraging or forbidding anyone from setting HOME to c:\.
Given that in Windows 7 writing to c:\ requires administrative
priviledges, perhaps we should be more strongly discouraging setting
HOME to c:\ for users who are blindly copying obsolete instructions they
find on the internet.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-04 3:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-02 18:58 bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup yary
2012-06-02 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-02 19:43 ` yary
2012-06-02 19:46 ` Drew Adams
2012-06-02 19:57 ` yary
2013-04-23 14:05 ` Michael
2013-04-23 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-03 19:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-06-04 3:50 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2012-06-04 4:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-04 13:24 ` Drew Adams
2016-06-25 3:28 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-25 4:31 ` Drew Adams
2016-06-25 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-25 13:42 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-25 13:51 ` yary
2016-06-25 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-25 15:30 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-25 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-27 1:01 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-27 11:15 ` Andy Moreton
2016-06-27 12:04 ` Noam Postavsky
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