From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some findings and suggestion about Emacs on w32 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:43:37 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <008d01c4b886$32d07ff0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <04b801c4ba07$a72b32a0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098650660 15935 80.91.229.6 (24 Oct 2004 20:44:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:44:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Benjamin Riefenstahl , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 24 22:44:06 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CLpDh-00047M-00 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:44:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLpLJ-0000sd-Nb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:51:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLpLC-0000sS-Uv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:51:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLpLB-0000s2-VV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:51:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLpLB-0000rz-To for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:51:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CLpDY-00041L-Fj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:43:56 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-195-137-77-250.freedom2surf.net [195.137.77.250]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9OKhnnF027957; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:43:49 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5424ADDD3A; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:43:49 +0100 (BST) Original-To: "Lennart Borgman" In-Reply-To: <04b801c4ba07$a72b32a0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:25:21 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28855 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28855 "Lennart Borgman" writes: > Until that is done I think that no value except emacs_dir should be written. > Maybe cleaning can wait. Noone has demonstrated any case where setting these variables causes harm, so I suggest that we just leave things as they are now. There are definite problems that could result from your suggestion if someone is upgrading from a sufficiently old version of Emacs (I don't know exactly how old that is, but I think 20.4 would probably be around the mark). > (I do not know if the other values are ever read now?) Yes they are. All variables under the Software/GNU/Emacs key are read, and treated as either environment variable or .xresources equivalents.