Re: Default HOME to USERPROFILE on w32?

[LENNART BORGMAN]

Maybe you could read the arguments from last october about this?

Kind regards,
Lennart


----- Original Message -----
From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 0:53 am
Subject: Re: Default HOME to USERPROFILE on w32?

> On 5/24/05, Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> wrote:
> > There was a discussion in oct 2004 about what to do on w32 if 
> HOME env
> > var was not set. I think the decision pretty much was to use
> > USERPROFILE.
> 
> I didn't read it, but, why USERPROFILE and not, for example, APPDATA?
> Emacs uses HOME to read .emacs.el, but also to write quite a lot of
> stuff, and that seems more appropriate for %APPDATA%\.emacs\, for
> example, that %USERPROFILE%\
> 
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