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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, shanks.n@gmail.com
Subject: Re: C:\_emacs not being read
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:07:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uwsycjym5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <466B1895.6090709@gnu.org> (message from Jason Rumney on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:16:05 +0100)

> Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:16:05 +0100
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> Shanks N wrote:
> > If there is no .emacs or _emacs in App Data/ folder and there is a
> >  _emacs file in C:\, then Emacs 22.1 does not read the _emacs file.
> 
> .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?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-10  3:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-09 15:52 C:\_emacs not being read Shanks N
2007-06-09 21:16 ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-10  3:07   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-06-10  5:08     ` Drew Adams
2007-06-10  8:25     ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-10 18:48       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-10 22:46         ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-10 13:18     ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-10 18:57       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-10 22:37       ` Jason Rumney

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