From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Guy Gascoigne-Piggford Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some findings and suggestion about Emacs on w32 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:01:49 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <417C264D.4010406@wyrdrune.com> References: <008d01c4b886$32d07ff0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <04b801c4ba07$a72b32a0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098655369 26230 80.91.229.6 (24 Oct 2004 22:02:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Benjamin Riefenstahl , Lennart Borgman , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 25 00:02:39 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 1CLqRj-0008AU-00 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:02:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLqZK-0008Nc-Rh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:10:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLqZE-0008NN-98 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:10:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLqZD-0008NA-ST for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:10:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLqZD-0008N7-Pe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:10:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [204.127.198.35] (helo=rwcrmhc11.comcast.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CLqR3-0006VF-Ee; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:01:57 -0400 Original-Received: from wyrdrune (c-24-21-205-248.client.comcast.net[24.21.205.248]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with SMTP id <20041024220145013009g4lie>; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:01:49 +0000 Original-Received: from 127.0.0.1 by wyrdrune ([127.0.0.1] running VPOP3) with ESMTP; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:01:50 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: X-Server: VPOP3 V1.5.0g - Registered 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:28859 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28859 Also IIRC my version of gnuclient uses these variables to locate emacs so that it can run it for the first time if it's not already running. Since I think that gnuclient does stuff that emacsclient doesn't (such as remote communication with emacs), I'd be a bit reluctant to break stuff that gnuclient uses. Guy Jason Rumney wrote: >"Lennart Borgman" writes: > > > >>Until that is done I think that no value except emacs_dir should be written. >>Maybe cleaning can wait. >> >> > >Noone has demonstrated any case where setting these variables causes >harm, so I suggest that we just leave things as they are now. There >are definite problems that could result from your suggestion if someone >is upgrading from a sufficiently old version of Emacs (I don't know >exactly how old that is, but I think 20.4 would probably be around the >mark). > > > >>(I do not know if the other values are ever read now?) >> >> > >Yes they are. All variables under the Software/GNU/Emacs key are read, >and treated as either environment variable or .xresources >equivalents. > > > >_______________________________________________ >Emacs-devel mailing list >Emacs-devel@gnu.org >http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel >. > > >