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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: maierh@myself.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Which files to proofread
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 07:14:02 +0200 (IST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020902071248.4092F-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17lefZ-0003Lt-00@fencepost.gnu.org>


On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     Description of the emacs_dir environment variable. I am using this
>     variable too under GNU/Linux to switch to the cvs version of emacs.
>     So I am wondering if this variable is really MS-Windows specific.
> 
> I don't see any mention of it in the source except in w32.c.
> So I think it must be Windows-specific.

It is Windows-specific.  Normally, Emacs sets its value at startup so 
that settings in the Registry (which mimic X resources) that are relative 
to emacs_dir would work automagically.

So I'm not sure it's a good idea to set emacs_dir directly.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-02  5:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-12 17:05 Which files to proofread Richard Stallman
2002-08-13  6:36 ` Harald.Maier.BW
2002-09-02  0:02   ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-02  5:14     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-09-02  0:02   ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-07 10:58     ` Harald.Maier.BW
2002-08-18  3:06 ` D. Goel
2002-08-19  0:50   ` Richard Stallman

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