From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de>
Subject: Re: Some findings and suggestion about Emacs on w32
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:39:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ekjo2c6f.fsf@seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uvfd12v1a.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (Jason Rumney's message of "Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:39:45 +0100")
Hi Jason,
Jason Rumney writes:
> emacs_dir is always replaced with the generated value. The only time
> it is not is if Emacs can't work out what the generated value should
> be (you have installed in a non-standard directory).
You mean if it is not running from within a standard installation tree
(in any top-level directory).
> The other values in the registry are the same as the defaults. Emacs
> will actually work now with nothing in the registry, the main reason
> for setting them in the install program is that older versions used
> hard-coded paths (not relative to emacs_dir), which may cause
> problems if they point to a different version, so we want to replace
> the old values.
So Lennart has a point there. The variables are not needed. They
should probably be removed by the installer, if they exist, instead of
overwriting them with unneeded values. Or am I missing something?
benny
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-24 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-22 22:24 Some findings and suggestion about Emacs on w32 Lennart Borgman
2004-10-22 23:47 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-23 13:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-24 22:23 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-24 22:44 ` Stefan
2004-10-24 22:58 ` Guy Gascoigne-Piggford
2004-10-24 23:36 ` Stefan
2004-10-24 23:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-24 22:57 ` Guy Gascoigne-Piggford
2004-10-25 7:13 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-25 8:13 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-25 16:50 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <m3sm 81q3ut.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk>
2004-10-26 8:29 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-26 17:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-26 17:43 ` Jason Rumney
2004-10-26 17:54 ` Stephan Stahl
2004-10-26 17:58 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-26 21:59 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-26 23:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-26 17:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-26 18:50 ` Guy Gascoigne - Piggford
2004-10-26 20:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-23 12:42 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-10-23 13:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-23 13:40 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-10-23 17:39 ` Jason Rumney
2004-10-24 18:39 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl [this message]
2004-10-24 20:02 ` Jason Rumney
2004-10-24 20:25 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-24 20:43 ` Jason Rumney
2004-10-24 22:01 ` Guy Gascoigne-Piggford
2004-10-23 13:54 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-23 17:44 ` Jason Rumney
2004-10-23 18:58 ` Guy Gascoigne-Piggford
2004-10-24 1:17 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-24 12:14 ` Jason Rumney
2004-10-24 12:46 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-25 4:30 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-10-25 20:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-24 22:06 ` Stefan
2004-10-25 8:42 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-25 9:00 ` Guy Gascoigne-Piggford
2004-10-25 9:29 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-25 10:42 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-10-25 11:39 ` Stefan
2004-10-25 12:06 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-25 12:25 ` Stefan
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