From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Which files to proofread Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 07:14:02 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030943816 20156 127.0.0.1 (2 Sep 2002 05:16:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 05:16:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: maierh@myself.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17lja2-0005Ez-00 for ; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 07:16:54 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17lk87-00040f-00 for ; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 07:52:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17ljbX-000887-00; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 01:18:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17ljZv-0007wi-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 01:16:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17ljZn-0007nw-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 01:16:46 -0400 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17ljZn-0007nM-00; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 01:16:39 -0400 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA04404; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 07:14:02 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Richard Stallman In-Reply-To: Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:7315 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7315 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.