From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do you create a .emacs for a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3?
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 18:16:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fvv8x7t9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86mwpgt0uw.fsf@hotmail.com>
> From: Vagn Johansen <gonz808@hotmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:59:51 +0200
>
> When I replied to Eli that always "had to" set HOME it is because I
> change it to C:\Users\USERNAME (a personal preference).
That's against Windows guidelines: that directory should not generally
store user files. See this page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb762494%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
which says:
CSIDL_PROFILE
FOLDERID_Profile
Version 5.0. The user's profile folder. A typical path is
C:\Users\username. Applications should not create files or
folders at this level; they should put their data under the
locations referred to by CSIDL_APPDATA or
CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA. However, if you are creating a new Known
Folder the profile root referred to by CSIDL_PROFILE is
appropriate.
You can, of course, do what you want on your systems, but Emacs tries
to be a good citizen.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-21 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-14 1:54 How do you create a .emacs for a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3? sebastianeappen
2013-07-14 2:00 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-14 2:09 ` sebastianeappen
2013-07-15 0:59 ` Ken Goldman
2013-07-15 3:37 ` Jude DaShiell
2013-07-15 4:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1065.1373863439.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-17 16:08 ` Vagn Johansen
2013-07-17 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-20 22:03 ` Ken Goldman
[not found] ` <mailman.1492.1374357816.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-21 8:45 ` Vagn Johansen
2013-07-21 13:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.1507.1374412093.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-21 14:59 ` Vagn Johansen
2013-07-21 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-07-22 4:04 ` Yuri Khan
2013-07-15 3:00 ` Alan
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