From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: C:\_emacs not being read Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:48:03 +0300 Message-ID: References: <466B1895.6090709@gnu.org> <466BB57D.2020200@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181501295 26834 80.91.229.12 (10 Jun 2007 18:48:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:48:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, shanks.n@gmail.com To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 10 20:48:13 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 1HxSST-0005nm-Df for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:48:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxSST-0003wg-2h for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:48:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxSSL-0003ne-AT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:48:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxSSJ-0003lj-C8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:48:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxSSJ-0003lT-3p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:48:03 -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 1HxSSI-0001rj-B0; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-0-63.inter.net.il [84.228.0.63]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id GYG40902 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:48:05 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <466BB57D.2020200@gnu.org> (message from Jason Rumney on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:25:33 +0100) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:15827 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:25:33 +0100 > From: Jason Rumney > Cc: shanks.n@gmail.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > I don't remember what the exact reason for not supporting it in this > particular place was. I can't find the thread where we were discussing > it, only earlier threads from Nov 04 and May 05. I don't even remember this being discussed. > We probably should stop mentioning it in the user manual. What about startup.el? If HOME _is_ set, we still try to load _emacs if there's no .emacs there. If you mean remove this from the manual only as a deprecation measure, then we probably should introduce it into w32.c where we check for C:/.emacs. However, you mentioned discussions, so perhaps there are valid technical reasons not to do that which I'm not aware of.