From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: chenggao@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org
Subject: Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:39:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ufyekm5xu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1GQUxA-0000eU-Gg@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:15:24 -0400)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:15:24 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, chenggao@gmail.com
>
> The case found by the original poster is when $HOME is not set in the
> environment. In Emacs 22 we default to the user specific APPDATA system
> directory, but we first check that C:\.emacs and C:\_emacs do not exist,
> in case the user used a previous version of Emacs that defaulted to
> C:\. The original poster had created C:\.emacs.d\init.el, but we do not
> check for this file when deciding whether to default to the old HOME
> location, since it is only supported since Emacs 22.
>
> Perhaps Emacs should check for C:\.emacs.d\ also.
> Why not?
I think Jason gave the reason in the last sentence above: becase the
~/.emacs.d/init.el feature was added only in Emacs 22, so users of
older versions will not have their init files there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-22 12:39 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 [this message]
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
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
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