From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:46:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ueju4m5l9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u8xkcsjv3.fsf@news.eqiao.com> (message from CHENG Gao on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:41:52 +0800)
> From: CHENG Gao <chenggao@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:41:52 +0800
>
> IIRC, there is no fallback dir for HOME under GNU/Linux and BSD, and
> user always (and should) know where HOME is. Why Windoze is so special
> that a (or even some) fallback dir(s) is(are) provided?
Because a GNU/Linux system _always_ has the HOME environment variable
defined for every user, while a Windows system doesn't. So Emacs that
runs on Windows needs to find some place to look for its per-user
files if HOME is not defined; it cannot rely on the fact that HOME is
_always_ defined. By contrast, a GNU/Linux system where HOME is not
defined is broken in many ways, so Emacs on GNU/Linux does not need
to consider such a situation.
> Even Windoze users should know where HOME is.
I hope by now you understand why they do NOT know. The notion of a
HOME directory simply doesn't exist on Windows.
> Maybe the clearer and simpler solution is to tell users to set HOME dir
> explicitly in manual.
That's not a good idea, since one needs a working Emacs to read the
manual.
> If a user can not handle HOME thing, my suggestion is DONT use
> Emacs. notepad.exe is better choice.
Why treat users harshly when we can solve the issue in the code. As
we have, actually, which is why I think it's pointless to discuss such
suggestions now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-22 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-19 23:09 single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs Patrick Drechsler
2006-09-20 3:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-09-21 10:21 ` Patrick Drechsler
2006-09-20 7:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-21 10:23 ` Patrick Drechsler
2006-09-21 1:58 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-21 10:25 ` Patrick Drechsler
2006-09-21 11:53 ` CHENG Gao
2006-09-21 12:15 ` Jason Rumney
2006-09-21 20:15 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-22 12:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-09-23 3:34 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-23 10:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-09-22 2:41 ` CHENG Gao
2006-09-22 12:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-09-22 14:31 ` CHENG Gao
2006-09-23 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-09-23 10:17 ` Jason Rumney
2006-09-21 2:51 ` Eric Hanchrow
2006-09-21 10:25 ` Patrick Drechsler
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=ueju4m5l9.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.