From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Sun Yijiang <sunyijiang@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What about a seperate "HOME" environment variable under w32?
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:04:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ekcyn5y5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01c549b4$Blat.v2.4$d9d6c880@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:34:51 +0300")
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:08:51 +0800
>> From: Sun Yijiang <sunyijiang@gmail.com>
>>
>> The %HOME% environment variable is used by many programs under w32, so it's
>> really a mess sometime.
>
> Is HOME used for any other purpose than Emacs does: to store the
> user's private init files? If some programs use HOME for conflicting
> purposes, could you please name those programs and describe the
> details?
>
>> I suggest Emacs use a different HOME variable=20
>> underw32, something like %EMACS_HOME% or %EHOME%.
>
> I don't think we should introduce such a variable without a very good
> reason; hence the questions above.
kpathsea, the library for most TeX systems, has a scheme where you can
override most environment variables on a per-application base.
An analog construction for Emacs would be to something like
(or (getenv "HOME.emacs") (getenv "HOME"))
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-25 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-25 12:08 What about a seperate "HOME" environment variable under w32? Sun Yijiang
2005-04-25 15:35 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2005-04-25 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-25 17:04 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-04-25 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-25 18:26 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-25 20:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-25 21:06 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-27 17:54 ` Jason Rumney
2005-04-27 18:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-25 18:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-25 21:27 ` Lennart Borgman
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