From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default HOME to USERPROFILE on w32? Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 00:53:57 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4293A3A3.4040700@student.lu.se> Reply-To: Juanma Barranquero NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116977035 16245 80.91.229.2 (24 May 2005 23:23:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 23:23:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 25 01:23:53 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Daijk-0006A8-Ic for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 01:23:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DainU-0001N6-TE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 19:26:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DaijC-0006Gx-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 19:22:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DaijA-0006Gg-Gy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 19:22:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Daii9-0005cD-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 19:21:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.199] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DaiHv-0003Ah-9J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 18:54:15 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 50so2931428wri for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 15:53:57 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Om+aHUK1NCtI9JGH4d/tyYRzdVpgwFfjV9ObPfgfeQgXZKXWt9Sv85vwwQHFEJHZvYqY7aAJevin8nK35pBic0kzXB/DFCL9gawPNcvH7ngDEETp73CGOlPcWp+fZVaob5SD4NRHegHSPzGCvpHlOyEvDOX77AfLXf2t2fV7TAM= Original-Received: by 10.54.33.73 with SMTP id g73mr3905969wrg; Tue, 24 May 2005 15:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.82.6 with HTTP; Tue, 24 May 2005 15:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <4293A3A3.4040700@student.lu.se> Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37587 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37587 On 5/24/05, Lennart Borgman 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%\ --=20 /L/e/k/t/u