From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fabrice Popineau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: %AppData% on Windows instead of %UserProfile% by default? Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:46:19 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <83wq73m1fz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415742443 22305 80.91.229.3 (11 Nov 2014 21:47:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:47:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 11 22:47:09 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJHI-0003HV-UW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:47:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJHI-0001Cw-Ja for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:47:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36130) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJGp-00012d-PA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:46:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJGh-0006L9-Mr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:46:39 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59481) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJGh-0006Kp-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:46:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJGf-0002u6-Vx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:46:30 +0100 Original-Received: from abo-126-219-68.trs.modulonet.fr ([85.68.219.126]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:46:29 +0100 Original-Received: from fabrice.popineau by abo-126-219-68.trs.modulonet.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:46:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 85.68.219.126 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.111 Safari/537.36) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176786 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii gnu.org> writes: > More importantly, we are following the platform guidelines, which > say: > > CSIDL_PROFILE Version 5.0. The user's profile folder. A typical > FOLDERID_Profile path is C:\Users\username. > Applications should not create files or folders > at this level; they should put their data under > the locations referred to by CSIDL_APPDATA or > CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA. I think that it depends on how you interpret "their data". Applications store data in %APPDATA%, but data which are invisible to the user (browser web cache, history, etc.) It is hardly the case for .emacs.d, it is not a byproduct of running Emacs, or at least not everything in there. And from this point of view, %UserProfile% is closer to what $HOME is under Unix. Actually, to make Emacs more "Windows" friendly would probably require to setup a configuration quite different from the GNU/Unix one. My $0.02, Fabrice