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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Default HOME to USERPROFILE on w32?
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 00:53:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b05052415533d412175@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4293A3A3.4040700@student.lu.se>

On 5/24/05, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> wrote:
> There was a discussion in oct 2004 about what to do on w32 if HOME env
> var was not set. I think the decision pretty much was to use
> USERPROFILE.

I didn't read it, but, why USERPROFILE and not, for example, APPDATA?
Emacs uses HOME to read .emacs.el, but also to write quite a lot of
stuff, and that seems more appropriate for %APPDATA%\.emacs\, for
example, that %USERPROFILE%\

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                    /L/e/k/t/u

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-24 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-24 21:58 Default HOME to USERPROFILE on w32? Lennart Borgman
2005-05-24 22:53 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2005-05-24 22:58 ` Jason Rumney
2005-05-24 23:22 ` Jason Rumney
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-25  7:04 LENNART BORGMAN

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