From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What about a seperate "HOME" environment variable under w32? Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:27:51 +0200 Message-ID: <002001c549dd$aa96b250$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <5065e2900504250508506d7640@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114464610 30326 80.91.229.2 (25 Apr 2005 21:30:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:30:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 25 23:30:07 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQB9N-0002WV-MN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:29:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQBEy-0006oS-Ip for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:35:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQBEP-0006gz-3r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:35:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQBEM-0006gH-7G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQBEL-0006Va-Ly for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DQBAq-0005Dy-1Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:31:24 -0400 Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (195.67.196.113) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.1.026.7) id 42687F20000D8B09; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:27:54 +0200 Original-To: "Sun Yijiang" , X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36390 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36390 Please see also the discussion in oct 2004 in the archives about "$HOME default on w32". ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sun Yijiang" To: Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 2:08 PM Subject: What about a seperate "HOME" environment variable under w32? The %HOME% environment variable is used by many programs under w32, so it's really a mess sometime. I suggest Emacs use a different HOME variable underw32, something like %EMACS_HOME% or %EHOME%. This can be backward compatible if Emacs first look for %EHOME% variable, and if not found, search for %HOME% instead. User can also set simply set %EHOME% to %HOME% to get backward compatibility. Sun Yijiang ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-devel mailing list > Emacs-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel