From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cheng Gao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: $HOME default on w32 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:58:06 +0800 Organization: eqiao.com Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20041027024056.DUFJ25072.out010.verizon.net@muskrat> <87y8hsonx5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <14367.217.194.34.123.1098857952.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=gb2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098860332 31329 80.91.229.6 (27 Oct 2004 06:58:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 06:58:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 27 08:58:45 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 1CMhld-0002Fc-00 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:58:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CMhtM-0001NV-OU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 03:06:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CMhtF-0001NP-Ek for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 03:06:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CMhtF-0001ND-27 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 03:06:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CMhtE-0001NA-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 03:06:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CMhlH-00062I-Cy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:58:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CMhlG-0006CL-00 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:58:22 +0200 Original-Received: from 218.2.142.138 ([218.2.142.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:58:22 +0200 Original-Received: from chenggao by 218.2.142.138 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:58:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 218.2.142.138 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1NXLpWxBXOeZlIukhja5dsfA0VI= 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:29024 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29024 I know %USERPROFILE% points to user directory. And I still oppose the idea to use it as $HOME for Emacs. There are different Windows - 95/98/98SE/Millenium/XP/2003 etc. As I said, if you need reinstall or upgrade, the result depends on what Windows you are using. It's possible the dir old %USERPROFILE% pointed to may be removed, then recreated (with same dir names). It's possible a new dir may be created with COMPUTERNAME or WINDOWS as suffix and %USERPROFILE% redirected to new dir. And I think even the most alert user may forget to backup. I know you are all powerful users, but I dont think all Emacs users are advanced and alert enough. After all, it gains very few than using C:\ as $HOME, and has potential to lose data. -- 相濡以沫，不如相忘于江湖。