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 21:02:22 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <008d01c4b886$32d07ff0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098648195 10585 80.91.229.6 (24 Oct 2004 20:03:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:03:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 24 22:03:07 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 1CLoa3-0001zt-00 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:03:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLohf-00080D-6E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:10:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLohV-0007zv-6t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:10:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLohT-0007zR-Vs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLohT-0007z4-QM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:10:47 -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 1CLoZZ-0006dn-T4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:02:38 -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 i9OK2anF021444; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:02:36 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C08DDD3A; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:02:35 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Benjamin Riefenstahl In-Reply-To: (Benjamin Riefenstahl's message of "Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:39:20 +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:28848 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28848 Benjamin Riefenstahl writes: > 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? Someone else has pointed out that some versions of gnuclient rely on emacs_dir being set. If we are going to leave emacs_dir, we might as well leave the others. It makes it easier for the user to see what variables are available if they want to change anything.