From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some findings and suggestion about Emacs on w32 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:25:21 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <04b801c4ba07$a72b32a0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <008d01c4b886$32d07ff0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098649547 13571 80.91.229.6 (24 Oct 2004 20:25:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:25:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 24 22:25:36 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CLovo-00039R-00 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:25:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLp3Q-0004sP-Bn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:33:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLp3H-0004s9-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLp3G-0004rd-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLp3G-0004rT-O7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:33:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.10.107] (helo=av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CLovb-0001Oy-Qs; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:25:24 -0400 Original-Received: by av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 555FC37EFD; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:25:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.182]) by av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41F9A37EA8; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:25:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t4o58p138.telia.com [195.252.57.138]) by smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 3091A37E4C; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:25:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Jason Rumney" , "Benjamin Riefenstahl" 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28853 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28853 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Rumney" To: "Benjamin Riefenstahl" Cc: "Emacs Devel" Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 10:02 PM Subject: Re: Some findings and suggestion about Emacs on w32 : Benjamin Riefenstahl writes: : : > So Lennart has a point there. The variables are not needed. They : > should probably be removed by the installer, if they exist, instead of : > overwriting them with unneeded values. Or am I missing something? : : Someone else has pointed out that some versions of gnuclient rely on : emacs_dir being set. If we are going to leave emacs_dir, we might as : well leave the others. It makes it easier for the user to see what : variables are available if they want to change anything. It was me. But maybe this whole discussion is obsolete if emacsclient.exe is ported to ms windows. I guess it will then recognize where it is loaded from and that will make all the registry keys in Software\GNU\Emacs unnecessary. Until that is done I think that no value except emacs_dir should be written. Maybe cleaning can wait. (I do not know if the other values are ever read now?) - Lennart