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: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:59:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5065e2900504250508506d7640@mail.gmail.com> <01c549b4$Blat.v2.4$d9d6c880@zahav.net.il> <85ekcyn5y5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <426FD1D5.2090104@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114628395 10897 80.91.229.2 (27 Apr 2005 18:59:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:59:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Sun Yijiang , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 27 20:59:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQrj7-0007nE-0J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:57:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQrp4-0003U7-JL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:03:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQror-0003Ts-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:03:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQrop-0003Tg-Mz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:03:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQrop-0003HI-IL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:03:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [206.47.199.165] (helo=simmts7-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DQroo-0004wj-9J; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:03:30 -0400 Original-Received: from empanada.home ([67.68.216.18]) by simmts7-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050427185905.XQWR3701.simmts7-srv.bellnexxia.net@empanada.home>; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:59:05 -0400 Original-Received: by empanada.home (Postfix, from userid 502) id 39D0953E955; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:59:04 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: <426FD1D5.2090104@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:54:29 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) 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:36461 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36461 > If HOME is not set as an environment variable on w32, Emacs will read it > from the registry (also used as the equivalent of .Xdefaults). Perhaps we > could change the priority of these, so that the registry overrides the > environment, since users are unlikely to set a specific HOME for Emacs in > the registry and then expect to override it by changing their environment. Until someone actually shows us some concrete scenario where the current behavior is a problem, I don't see any need to change anything and I don't think making blind changes like that would help much either. I for one occasionally like to change my HOME envvar for a particular process, typically to make sure no other ~/.foo file influences the behavior, or as a user-level variant of chrooting. Of course, it's typically under GNU/Linux, so it may not be pertinent for w32. Stefan