Registry access on w32

Registry access on w32

[Lennart Borgman]

During the time I have tried to write an installer for Emacs on ms windows I
have many times wished that Emacs had support for accessing the registry. If
registry access was built into Emacs then much of what I have done could
have been done inside Emacs and that would have been a big benefit. I have
been tempted to write something like it myself.

The registry contains things like program locations, file associations,
printer information etc.

Now, when I read a post on [h-e-w] I stumbled upon a web page
(http://www.gnusoftware.com/Emacs/Registry/) which says it has a patch for
Emacs that allows this access. From the page:

    "Originally I created a patch to the Emacs sources to access to
    the registry from within Lisp, my patch was a proof of concept one,
    and wasn't terribly complete.

    Shortly afterwards this patch was superceded by a more complete
    offering from Jay Finger.

    Unfortunately since then not much has happened, and neither the
   registry access patch, nor my registry editing mode have made it
   into Emacs."

Why is this not included in Emacs? I believe it can make a big difference
for Emacs users on ms windows.

- Lennart

Re: Registry access on w32

[Dhruva Krishnamurthy]

Hello,


On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:41:42 +0200, Lennart Borgman
<lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> wrote:
>     Unfortunately since then not much has happened, and neither the
>    registry access patch, nor my registry editing mode have made it
>    into Emacs."
> 
> Why is this not included in Emacs? I believe it can make a big difference
> for Emacs users on ms windows.

I support the necessity for having access to registry from emacs. Many
times, we try to set lot of things in environment variables so that it
can be accessed in Emacs. For example, I was trying to add support to
an in-house SCM. Lot of details are in the registry (added during the
SCM installation). To get these information, either I have to modify
the dotemacs and duplicate the entries or add it in env var and get it
into emacs.

As mentioned in the earlier mail, the file extension is a real case of
duplication. Registry has the information, we duplicate it in
dotemacs.

with best regards,
dhruva

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