From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Need help upgrading from emacs 21.3 to 22.1 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:21:31 +0100 Message-ID: <47D6CDAB.60506@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205259757 16794 80.91.229.12 (11 Mar 2008 18:22:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:22:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 11 19:22:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1JZ97O-0007MW-Jp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:22:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZ96p-00062y-WA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:21:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZ96Z-00062X-AH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:21:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZ96Y-00062L-7e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:21:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZ96Y-00062I-3v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:21:38 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZ96X-0004C1-OE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:21:37 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:59329 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JZ96V-0001A2-5E; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:21:35 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080311-0, 2008-03-11), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JZ96V-0001A2-5E. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1JZ96V-0001A2-5E b12828eeb0cacd22c4837aa51b246c26 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52261 Archived-At: Jason Rumney wrote: > On 11 Mar, 16:07, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" > wrote: >> Hi Art, >> >> The handling of HOME has changed on Windows in Emacs 22, see >> >> (info "(emacs) Windows HOME") > > Since the linked instructions advise to set a HOME environment > variable, the changes are irrelevant. The changes are only to the > default value of HOME if the environment variable is not set, and even > then have been done in a way that is backwards compatible for people > who installed a previous version of Emacs or are following > installation instructions for a previous version. Thanks Jason, sorry if I gave another impression, I did not think about that possibility. I just thought that Art might have given different instructions if he had written them for Emacs 22 from the beginning.