From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:50:49 +0800 Message-ID: <87zk8j7n1i.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8362b9cyjr.fsf@gnu.org> <91E1E14DBB414F068939D2843B343E69@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338781935 7613 80.91.229.3 (4 Jun 2012 03:52:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 03:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'yary' , 11612@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 04 05:52:13 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 1SbOKz-0008TX-5p for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 05:52:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33392 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbOKy-0000Bp-St for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from home.jasonrumney.net ([180.75.8.22]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id qp3sm11788041pbc.17.2012.06.03.20.50.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by home.jasonrumney.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 02BCF11D2; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 11:50:49 +0800 (MYT) In-Reply-To: <91E1E14DBB414F068939D2843B343E69@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 2 Jun 2012 12:46:57 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) 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:60685 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: >> Could the warning message "Setting HOME to C:\ by default is >> deprecated" also include "Move .emacs out from C:\" > > There is nothing wrong with having .emacs in c:\. > > IIUC, this change is about Emacs not looking in c:\ _by default_. It is not > about discouraging or forbidding anyone from setting HOME to c:\. 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.