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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4003:c06::241 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:220058 Archived-At: On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > It is primarily > for the na=C3=AFve (a.k.a. "newbie") who just want to be able to invoke t= he > installer and get Emacs installed "correctly", meaning that Emacs is > available to any other program running on the system. And that means > being installed where other programs are installed (which gives them > additional protection by system-wide processes and features), and > being on PATH. Being on the PATH is not a necessary condition. In the case of a single user-facing binary, it is more efficient to register it on the App Paths registry key. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee872121(v=3Dvs.85= ).aspx