From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Crash on empty HOME var in Windows registry Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:24:41 +0200 Message-ID: <46770629.8060100@gmail.com> References: <46764C61.1050804@free.fr> <4676A28C.7090605@gnu.org> <4676F372.1020503@gnu.org> <4676F7D7.7020509@gmail.com> <4676FDF8.9070701@gmail.com> <467700B8.9080808@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182205501 17914 80.91.229.12 (18 Jun 2007 22:25:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Vincent Liard To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 19 00:24:59 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 1I0Pea-0001mG-UM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:24:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0Pea-0003Id-F8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:24:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0PeY-0003IY-5h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:24:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0PeW-0003Hb-Jc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:24:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0PeW-0003HY-GD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0PeV-0007vX-GG; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:24:51 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-133-189.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.133.189]:63615 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1I0PeT-0001rQ-8X; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:24:50 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070604 Thunderbird/2.0.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <467700B8.9080808@gnu.org> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000750-1, 2007-06-18), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.133.189 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1I0PeT-0001rQ-8X. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1I0PeT-0001rQ-8X 66af953f683eb789578f0aad7e924154 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:15949 Archived-At: Jason Rumney wrote: > Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: >> Why ignore the users in that case? >> > Not the users! We were talking about the environment variables. > > Read the whole thread before you jump in challenging our decisions. Ok, sorry, stupid of me to think that you would ignore the users. But you actually wrote: "Most users would never figure out why emacs is aborting, so it is better to ignore them." (And I think Juanma did the right thing.)