Default HOME to USERPROFILE on w32?

Default HOME to USERPROFILE on w32?

[Lennart Borgman]

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. There was one exception: If c:\.emacs existed then this 
should be used instead. (See for example 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-10/msg01168.html).

It does not seem like this has been implemented. Are there any 
objections do this?

Re: Default HOME to USERPROFILE on w32?

[Juanma Barranquero]

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%\

-- 
                    /L/e/k/t/u

Re: Default HOME to USERPROFILE on w32?

[Jason Rumney]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:

> 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. There was one exception: If c:\.emacs existed then this
> should be used instead. (See for example
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-10/msg01168.html).
>
> It does not seem like this has been implemented. Are there any
> objections do this?

No objections, I think there was consensus that it should be done, and
Stefan implemented something in Lisp, but Eli and I thought it better
to do in the C code where the environment is initialized, to avoid
some code getting a different value during startup.

Re: Default HOME to USERPROFILE on w32?

[Jason Rumney]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:

> 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.

Note that it is probably more portable (but more work) to use
SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(..., CSIDL_PROFILE,...) than the
USERPROFILE environment variable.

Re: Default HOME to USERPROFILE on w32?

[LENNART BORGMAN]

Maybe you could read the arguments from last october about this?

Kind regards,
Lennart


----- Original Message -----
From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 0:53 am
Subject: Re: Default HOME to USERPROFILE on w32?

> 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%\
> 
> -- 
>                    /L/e/k/t/u
> 
> 
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