From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What about a seperate "HOME" environment variable under w32? Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:06:28 +0200 Message-ID: <85oec2lg6j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <5065e2900504250508506d7640@mail.gmail.com> <01c549b4$Blat.v2.4$d9d6c880@zahav.net.il> <85ekcyn5y5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <01c549c2$Blat.v2.4$e672e660@zahav.net.il> <853bten25t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <01c549d9$Blat.v2.4$c8fa39a0@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114463086 30650 80.91.229.2 (25 Apr 2005 21:04:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:04:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sunyijiang@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 25 23:04:44 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQAk6-0006vq-LU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:03:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQAph-0001c9-7u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:09:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQAp5-0001SF-2W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:08:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQAp1-0001Rh-Sa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:08:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQAp1-0000WG-O9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:08:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [151.189.21.45] (helo=mail-in-05.arcor-online.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DQAqa-0003p0-3D; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:10:28 -0400 Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (i53879640.versanet.de [83.135.150.64]) by mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A431D10B44C; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:06:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 502C61C1E25E; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:06:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c549d9$Blat.v2.4$c8fa39a0@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:59:15 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36388 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36388 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: >> Cc: sunyijiang@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> From: David Kastrup >> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:26:22 +0200 >> >> I am not sure about that, but the complexity of kpathsea is >> completely irrelevant for resolving that question. > > It's relevant: I wouldn't want to ever see Emacs in the need of > something like kpsewhich to figure out where HOME (or any other > variable related to Emacs) points this week. Looks like Guy Fawkes celebrations must be near. Straw men seem all the rage. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum