From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: windows installer Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 06:30:11 +0200 Message-ID: <834lq0nmp8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87po99qzbn.fsf@russet.org.uk> <1509955878.550800.1162811960.541B525D@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87h8u6bae3.fsf@russet.org.uk> <1510126271.1965593.1165373624.0601E5CF@webmail.messagingengine.com> <8760aijcek.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83ineiotjr.fsf@gnu.org> <87375l4sui.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87k1yx3vlw.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510461024 23941 195.159.176.226 (12 Nov 2017 04:30:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 04:30:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jostein@kjonigsen.net, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Fabrice Popineau Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 12 05:30:19 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eDjuT-0005no-7U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 05:30:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47973 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDjuY-0003Pu-Nt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 23:30:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56048) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDjuO-0003P1-Qb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 23:30:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDjuL-0000vX-NG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 23:30:12 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37860) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDjuL-0000vT-JS; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 23:30:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3560 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eDjuK-0004um-Jp; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 23:30:09 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Fabrice Popineau on Sun, 12 Nov 2017 01:30:22 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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 Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220084 Archived-At: > From: Fabrice Popineau > Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 01:30:22 +0100 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Jostein Kjønigsen , > Jostein Kjønigsen , > Emacs developers > > Hmm ... besides copying the whole Emacs directory on an usb stick, what else do I > need to do in order to use emacs from this stick on another computer ? You need to set up the directories where Emacs searches for its files, like libexec and share/emacs/VERSION. A USB drive could get a different mount point (a.k.a. "drive letter") on each machine, which gets in the way. > And BTW, for Emacs to be a good Windows citizen, the .emacs.d directory should probably not be located > in %HOMEPATH%\%HOMEDIR% but more likely in %APPDATA%\Emacs . I am not sure > it is a good path (!) to take. We use %APPDATA%, and I think it's too late to change that, even if using a subdirectory would be slightly better. (The discussion was where to install Emacs itself, not where to create the user init directory -- the installer doesn't change that.)