From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What about a seperate "HOME" environment variable under w32? Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:56:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5065e2900504250508506d7640@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114455202 2398 80.91.229.2 (25 Apr 2005 18:53:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:53:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 25 20:53:18 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ8gV-0003iv-1Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:51:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ8m4-000201-B1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:57:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ8lw-0001zw-7T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:57:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ8lu-0001zj-NM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:57:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQ8lt-0000vj-OX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DQ8o1-0003Uo-Cz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:59:41 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id D391E340018; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:56:20 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350524AC242; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:56:14 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1AD89E6C19; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:56:14 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Sun Yijiang In-Reply-To: <5065e2900504250508506d7640@mail.gmail.com> (Sun Yijiang's message of "Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:08:51 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.837, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.06, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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:36383 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36383 > The %HOME% environment variable is used by many programs under w32, so it's > really a mess sometime. The above doesn't make any sense: the $HOME envvar is used by many/all programs under Unix and it's not a mess at all. Could you explain why under w32 it creates a mess? E.g. give examples of conflicting requirements. That will help us better assess the problem and the potential solutions, Stefan