From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: %AppData% on Windows instead of %UserProfile% by default? Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:26:32 +0100 Message-ID: <87h9y6ap47.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <87ppcv9f3h.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83y4rjm1ww.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415644031 30246 80.91.229.3 (10 Nov 2014 18:27:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:27:11 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 10 19:27:04 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Xntg7-0008Pd-TU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:27:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44590 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xntg7-0000tn-HX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:27:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38430) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xntfx-0000tc-9c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:26:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xntfr-0002ZI-2i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:26:52 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60440) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xntfq-0002Z2-SX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:26:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xntfo-0008Ak-RI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:26:44 +0100 Original-Received: from 166.red-83-59-18.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.59.18.166]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:26:44 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 166.red-83-59-18.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:26:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 166.red-83-59-18.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:o8CYsdfcNAm3jpxh/tTmwRZJLVU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176703 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> If I define %HOME%, I expect from Emacs to use it as in the other >> platforms. > > It does. I've been doing that on Windows for many years. So I do. I was reading the OP's msg as a proposal for overriding %HOME% with some other Windows-specific variable when deciding where to put .emacs.d, but that was later clarified.