From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default HOME to USERPROFILE on w32?
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 23:58:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uk6loqlja.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4293A3A3.4040700@student.lu.se> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Tue, 24 May 2005 23:58:59 +0200")
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:
> There was a discussion in oct 2004 about what to do on w32 if HOME env
> var was not set. I think the decision pretty much was to use
> USERPROFILE. There was one exception: If c:\.emacs existed then this
> should be used instead. (See for example
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-10/msg01168.html).
>
> It does not seem like this has been implemented. Are there any
> objections do this?
No objections, I think there was consensus that it should be done, and
Stefan implemented something in Lisp, but Eli and I thought it better
to do in the C code where the environment is initialized, to avoid
some code getting a different value during startup.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-24 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-24 21:58 Default HOME to USERPROFILE on w32? Lennart Borgman
2005-05-24 22:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-24 22:58 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2005-05-24 23:22 ` Jason Rumney
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2005-05-25 7:04 LENNART BORGMAN
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