From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: C:\_emacs not being read Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:46:15 +0100 Message-ID: <466C7F37.7070505@gnu.org> References: <466B1895.6090709@gnu.org> <466BB57D.2020200@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181515585 3727 80.91.229.12 (10 Jun 2007 22:46:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:46:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, shanks.n@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 11 00:46:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HxWAx-0007ec-HI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:46:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxWAw-0003XC-Om for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:46:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxWAv-0003UE-7P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:46:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxWAt-0003QO-Vk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:46:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxWAt-0003Q5-Om for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:46:19 -0400 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HxWAs-0008HI-Ax; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:46:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF76450CBD; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:46:17 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15835 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:25:33 +0100 >> From: Jason Rumney >> Cc: shanks.n@gmail.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >> >> I don't remember what the exact reason for not supporting it in this >> particular place was. I can't find the thread where we were discussing >> it, only earlier threads from Nov 04 and May 05. >> > > I don't even remember this being discussed. > Then perhaps it was an oversight. I thought I remembered some problem being brought up in checking for both names in c:\. > What about startup.el? If HOME _is_ set, we still try to load _emacs > if there's no .emacs there. > The intention was definitely never to drop support for _emacs completely, but I thought I remembered a discussion about problems with checking in multiple locations, which was resolved by deprecating the non-standard _emacs version. > If you mean remove this from the manual only as a deprecation measure, > then we probably should introduce it into w32.c where we check for > C:/.emacs. If 22.2 is to be released soon, then it is worth adding a check if we are sure it is an omission.