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?
next prev parent 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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