From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dhruva Krishnamurthy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Registry access on w32 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:54:34 +0530 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <68c73b1a041012212417a960f9@mail.gmail.com> References: <02f001c4b073$d06034b0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> Reply-To: Dhruva Krishnamurthy NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1097641520 1996 80.91.229.6 (13 Oct 2004 04:25:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 04:25:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Edi Weitz , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 13 06:25:06 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CHahG-0005zD-00 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 06:25:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CHaoH-0001vW-Kl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:32:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CHaoB-0001vQ-Nw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:32:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CHaoB-0001vE-Av for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:32:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CHaoB-0001vB-7Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:32:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.170.200] (helo=mproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CHagl-0001bY-L2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:24:35 -0400 Original-Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 74so461438rnl for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:24:35 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.38.152.63 with SMTP id z63mr2167806rnd; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:24:34 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.38.102.20 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:24:34 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <02f001c4b073$d06034b0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> 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:28341 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28341 Hello, On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:41:42 +0200, Lennart Borgman 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 -- Proud FSF member: #1935 http://schemer.fateback.com/