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: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:39:45 +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 1098553231 18577 80.91.229.6 (23 Oct 2004 17:40:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 17:40:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 23 19:40:19 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 1CLPsJ-0002KQ-00 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:40:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLPzs-0000Ex-1n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLPzl-0000En-SI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:48:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLPzk-0000EA-Rm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:48:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLPzk-0000E0-D6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:48:00 -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 1CLPs4-0005UD-3c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:40:04 -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 i9NHe1nF016106; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:40:01 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79CA6DDD16; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:40:00 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Benjamin Riefenstahl In-Reply-To: (Benjamin Riefenstahl's message of "Sat, 23 Oct 2004 14:42:13 +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:28790 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28790 Benjamin Riefenstahl writes: > Isn't the opposite the case? When "emacs_dir" is not set it is > automatically replaced with a generated value. 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). 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.