From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What about a seperate "HOME" environment variable under w32? Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:34:51 +0300 Message-ID: <01c549b4$Blat.v2.4$d9d6c880@zahav.net.il> References: <5065e2900504250508506d7640@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114447259 6738 80.91.229.2 (25 Apr 2005 16:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:40:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 25 18:40:57 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ6dX-000181-9g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:40:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ6j5-0007Uh-GM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:46:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ6hU-0006Qj-0w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:44:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ6hR-0006Lc-0f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:44:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ6hQ-0006LZ-UP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:44:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DQ6cp-00023G-1H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:39:59 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski (IGLD-80-230-41-251.inter.net.il [80.230.41.251]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id BBN42066 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:36:16 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Sun Yijiang X-Mailer: emacs 22.0.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.4 In-reply-to: <5065e2900504250508506d7640@mail.gmail.com> (message from Sun Yijiang on Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:08:51 +0800) 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:36371 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36371 > Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:08:51 +0800 > From: Sun Yijiang > > The %HOME% environment variable is used by many programs under w32, so it's > really a mess sometime. Is HOME used for any other purpose than Emacs does: to store the user's private init files? If some programs use HOME for conflicting purposes, could you please name those programs and describe the details? > I suggest Emacs use a different HOME variable=20 > underw32, something like %EMACS_HOME% or %EHOME%. I don't think we should introduce such a variable without a very good reason; hence the questions above.