From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 07:22:54 +0300 Message-ID: <83ipf7bt9d.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8362b9cyjr.fsf@gnu.org> <91E1E14DBB414F068939D2843B343E69@us.oracle.com> <87zk8j7n1i.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338783858 18415 80.91.229.3 (4 Jun 2012 04:24:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 04:24:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: not.com@gmail.com, 11612@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 04 06:24:16 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SbOpy-00059D-Lw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 06:24:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36060 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbOpy-000397-E6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:24:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38514) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbOpv-000392-DB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:24:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbOpt-00030S-Rw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:24:10 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46824) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbOpt-00030H-OT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:24:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SbOri-0006FD-BR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:26:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 04:26:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11612 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 11612-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11612.133878392023952 (code B ref 11612); Mon, 04 Jun 2012 04:26:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11612) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Jun 2012 04:25:20 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56370 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SbOr2-0006EH-EC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:25:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:54901) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SbOr0-0006E4-Mb for 11612@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:25:19 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M5200D00S4KKU00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 11612@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 07:22:46 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.210.75]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M5200DB3S5YAU70@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 07:22:46 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87zk8j7n1i.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:60686 Archived-At: > From: Jason Rumney > Cc: "'yary'" , "'Eli Zaretskii'" , 11612@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:50:49 +0800 > > Given that in Windows 7 writing to c:\ requires administrative > priviledges, perhaps we should be more strongly discouraging setting > HOME to c:\ for users who are blindly copying obsolete instructions they > find on the internet. Maybe. But the current situation was the necessary first step anyway, because someone who sets HOME to C:\ at least did something deliberate she might remember. OTOH, I kinda gather that lots of people disable UAC on Windows 7, so perhaps the issue is no more pressing now than it was with XP.