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Re: [h-e-w] Re: Emacs-21.3-5 msi installer
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Rex Dieter |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] Re: Emacs-21.3-5 msi installer |
Date: |
Wed, 04 May 2005 07:22:42 -0500 |
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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) |
Brian Elmegaard wrote:
> Works like a charm, Rex.
>
> I have the following suggestions to be put in default.el:
> (setenv "HOME" (getenv "USERPROFILE")) ; users will not have the root
> ; of C: as home
What if HOME is already set?
Wouldn't it be better to set HOME to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% (if they're
defined)?
> (cd (getenv "USERPROFILE")) ; Change to home for file
> ; operations
Shouldn't you use the (just possibly set) value of HOME instead?
> (setq user-init-file (concat (getenv "HOME") "\\_emacs")) ; .emacs is
> ; a problem
> ; on windows
Why is this needed exactly? Is there a bug in the stock Emacs wrt this?
-- Rex