From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alexander Shukaev <haroogan@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: %AppData% on Windows instead of %UserProfile% by default?
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:04:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wq73m1fz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKu-7WyDXm67PF6LMrWmoSdNHQOgESy3xQPzOsoYzgC8dXjx-w@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:26:12 +0100
> From: Alexander Shukaev <haroogan@gmail.com>
>
> Could you give some motivation behind using %AppData% on Windows instead of
> %UserProfile% by default for "emacs.d" location?
First, %AppData% is a subdirectory of %UserProfile%, so it's not like
this is a totally different place.
More importantly, we are following the platform guidelines, which
say:
CSIDL_PROFILE Version 5.0. The user's profile folder. A typical
FOLDERID_Profile 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.
(You can see this at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb762494%28v=vs.85%29.aspx.)
> Also, why is the location of "emacs.d" on Windows is primarily
> controlled by %HOME%, rather than %UserProfile% once again? %HOME%
> is not a native environment variable on Windows, while %UserProfile%
> is.
When Emacs on Windows starts up, if %HOME% is not defined in the
environment already, Emacs defines it to refer to %AppData%. See
w32.c:init_environment for more details.
> Please, let's be consistent across platforms.
I think we are, as much as practically possible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-10 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-10 16:26 %AppData% on Windows instead of %UserProfile% by default? Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-10 16:48 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-10 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-10 18:26 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-10 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-11-10 17:49 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-10 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-11 21:46 ` Fabrice Popineau
2014-11-12 3:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-12 15:14 ` Matthias Meulien
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