From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: 8220@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8220: 24.0.50; (On Windows XP) "c:\_emacs" isn't found during startup
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:33:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimcCJbTcSbUPrXdn5zgYP_NaKCZjT-TZELaVRr6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin-CbdbNeh4B5H8X9rvxzPu7wiMTs-yHvP75JGf@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 07:42, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 06:56, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> More accurately, if %HOME% is set explicitly, then init files are searched
>> there.
>> Otherwise if c:\.emacs exists, then %HOME% is implicitly set to C:\ (for
>> backwards compatibility with older versions)
>
> Well, sort of, because when HOME is implicitly set to C:\, only the
> existence of .emacs is checked, not _emacs, while the same is not true
> for an explicit HOME or for the AppData directory.
>
Yes, and I wonder why to have this inconsistency. Why don't check
always for the same alternatives of init file? Even when checking
under "C:\"?.
>> In fact, we could start issuing a warning
>> if the fallback directory of C:\ is detected as being used in Emacs 24, so
>> we can remove this fallback in a future release.
>
> Yes, I think that's a good idea.
>
Fine by me too.
--
Dani Moncayo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-11 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-10 20:40 bug#8220: 24.0.50; (On Windows XP) "c:\_emacs" isn't found during startup Dani Moncayo
2011-03-11 2:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-11 5:56 ` Jason Rumney
2011-03-11 6:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-11 9:33 ` Dani Moncayo [this message]
2011-03-11 11:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-11 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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