From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: RE: C:\_emacs not being read Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 22:08:21 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181452177 29781 80.91.229.12 (10 Jun 2007 05:09:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:09:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, shanks.n@gmail.com To: "Eli Zaretskii" , "Jason Rumney" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 10 07:09:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HxFgF-00085x-9y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:09:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxFgE-0004Yt-Hi for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:09:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxFgB-0004Yo-ND for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:09:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxFg9-0004YX-O1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:09:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxFg9-0004YU-GE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:09:29 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HxFg7-0003e7-Px; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:09:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (rgmgw3.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.112]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l5A59MMl022376; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:09:23 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l5A4rBGV004382; Sat, 9 Jun 2007 23:09:21 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-whq-csvpn-gw3-141-144-80-33.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2882532441181452113; Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:08:33 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 In-Reply-To: X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15815 Archived-At: > > .emacs is the standard name for Emacs's user init file. _emacs has > > traditionally been additionally supported by the Windows port, because > > the FAT16 file system was unable to represent the true name, but noone > > uses FAT16 file systems anymore, and such use is deprecated. > > But if we don't want to support _emacs on Windows anymore, we should > be consistent and remove it from startup.el as well, and also stop > mentioning it in the user manual, right? I agree with that - let's be consistent. I don't care much about this issue, but is there some reason *not* to also support _emacs? Even if no one uses FAT16, it's still the case that Windows considers .emacs to be a file extension - a file of type "EMACS", and other applications besides Emacs will try to look for a file association for files with that extension. IOW, why not simply let Windows users use _emacs as they have been doing for years?