From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: EmacsW32 invocation options Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 10:40:09 +0300 Message-ID: References: <59osrdF2m97hgU1@mid.individual.net> <4637A396.9000300@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178264429 16227 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2007 07:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 07:40:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 04 09:40:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1HjsOx-0002EI-E2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 09:40:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjsVY-00017a-V2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 03:47:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjsVL-00017T-6M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 03:47:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjsVJ-00017G-W7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 03:47:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjsVJ-00017D-RA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 03:47:01 -0400 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HjsOh-0004p6-Cm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 03:40:11 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-210-155.inter.net.il [80.230.210.155]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id GRA26751 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 4 May 2007 10:40:12 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: (message from Brian Elmegaard on Thu, 03 May 2007 07:08:12 +0100) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43640 Archived-At: > From: Brian Elmegaard > Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 07:08:12 +0100 > > Many windows users will not even consider running another system. True, but many others do (or have to). And they are not necessarily experts. For example, on my daytime job, there's a rumor going around that I have something to do with Emacs. You wouldn't believe how many such users come to me for help, and they specifically want to have similar environments on both platforms. This is because we have many projects that target multiple platforms, including Windows and GNU/Linux. > Those experts who need to run on several systems may be able > to do something clever with system-type in their .emacs wouldn't they? Sure, they can. But system-type is never mentioned in the Emacs user manual, so it will take them quite some time to find out about it. And it's a nuisance anyway.