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 21:15:26 +0300 Message-ID: <01c549c2$Blat.v2.4$e672e660@zahav.net.il> References: <5065e2900504250508506d7640@mail.gmail.com> <01c549b4$Blat.v2.4$d9d6c880@zahav.net.il> <85ekcyn5y5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> 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 1114453180 27704 80.91.229.2 (25 Apr 2005 18:19:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:19:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sunyijiang@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 25 20:19:36 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ89y-0006nv-2N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:18:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ8FW-0000oD-PW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:24:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ8EE-0000QM-PG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:22:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ8EC-0000PD-N2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:22:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ8EC-00004w-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:22:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DQ8C3-0000fC-Ox; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:20:28 -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 BBN60685 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:16:51 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: David Kastrup X-Mailer: emacs 22.0.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.4 In-reply-to: <85ekcyn5y5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:04:34 +0200) 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:36381 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36381 > Cc: Sun Yijiang , emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: David Kastrup > Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:04:34 +0200 > > kpathsea, the library for most TeX systems, has a scheme where you can > override most environment variables on a per-application base. I know all about Kpathsea, but I don't think there's any reason to go to such complexities in Emacs. Kpathsea does that because it is a library that is supposed to be linked into many applications, each one with its own peculiar configuration files and auxiliary file directory trees, with complex requirements like ability to be installed both in and outside the TDS tree. Emacs doesn't come anywhere near such issues.