From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it>
To: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: windows installer
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:12:24 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1447748875.458066.1510690344828@mail.libero.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFgFV9MimRcEZ9xmjR5D-KCs_Drj8hKme2V60QcF_HbF=SBTgg@mail.gmail.com>
> Il 14 novembre 2017 alle 17.31 Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>
> 2017-11-14 15:36 GMT+01:00 Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it>:
>
> >
> > > Fabrice Popineau ha scritto:
> > >
> > >
> > > The best portable program is the one you can install with unzip. And it
> > is already the case for Emacs.
> > >
> >
> > No. After you have unzipped and started Emacs, where do you think it will
> > write the .emacs.d folder?
> >
>
> And why do you care about .emacs.d that much ?
> You can setup emacs using the site-lisp directory if you don't want to
> write to your host in ~/.emacs.d.
>
>
> > You are using "portable" with a meaning a bit different from the one which
> > is discussed here... It should not write the host machine.
> >
> >
> I don't think so. I have already been there in the past and for longer you
> seem to imagine.
> My point is that you can configure everything from within emacs without
> requiring an external installer
> to fiddle with your host.
..but not all [potential] users want to do that...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-14 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-12 8:56 windows installer Angelo Graziosi
2017-11-12 9:03 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-12 11:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-12 12:39 ` Fabrice Popineau
[not found] ` <8760adbxw6.fsf@russet.org.uk>
2017-11-13 22:46 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-14 14:36 ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-11-14 16:31 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-14 20:12 ` Angelo Graziosi [this message]
2017-11-20 8:46 ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2017-11-20 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-22 23:01 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-23 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-23 18:06 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-23 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-24 19:13 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-24 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-25 11:08 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-25 12:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-27 17:56 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-12 14:14 ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-11-12 11:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-12 14:27 ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-11-12 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-12 17:32 ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-11-12 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-10-26 23:11 Phillip Lord
2017-10-28 21:47 ` Richard Stallman
2017-11-06 8:11 ` Jostein Kjønigsen
[not found] ` <87h8u6bae3.fsf@russet.org.uk>
[not found] ` <WM!524810e63610127669556b68fb62cde560daf19be50fc52d4d63dd232af7bdb0490810e03b84a6559c9b2017d8462cc3!@mailhub-mx4.ncl.ac.uk>
2017-11-08 7:31 ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2017-11-10 17:01 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-10 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-10 20:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-10 21:22 ` John Mastro
2017-11-10 21:35 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-11 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-11 11:34 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-11 14:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-12 11:21 ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2017-11-10 21:33 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-11 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-10 23:27 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-11 0:25 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-11 11:25 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-12 0:30 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-12 4:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <87fu9hbytq.fsf@russet.org.uk>
2017-11-13 22:25 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-14 13:08 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-16 16:15 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-11 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-11 11:24 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-11 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<83ineiotjr.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-11-10 21:43 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-10 23:35 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-11 7:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-11 7:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-11 9:42 ` Yuri Khan
2017-11-11 10:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-11 16:39 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <87a7zpbxza.fsf@russet.org.uk>
2017-11-13 22:44 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-14 14:54 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-16 16:15 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-16 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-16 16:31 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-16 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-16 17:35 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-16 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-16 18:10 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-16 20:45 ` Richard Copley
2017-11-17 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-17 7:22 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-17 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-17 7:25 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-16 17:42 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-11-16 17:45 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-22 22:39 ` Phillip Lord
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