Hi Sun Yijiang, Sun Yijiang writes: > The %HOME% environment variable is used by many programs under w32, > so it's really a mess sometime.
The HOME environment variable is used by almost every program with a Unix heritage. But it seems pretty clear to me what HOME is. It's the place where user-level configuration files are stored and on Unix it's also the place where the user can store his/her other personal files. Windows has other places for the latter purpose, but that is not relevant here, I think. > I suggest Emacs use a different HOME variable underw32, something > like %EMACS_HOME% or %EHOME%. You can achieve that effect with other means, like starting Emacs from a batch that sets HOME. Or let the ~/.emacs in your standard HOME jkust be a short stub that points to another file in some other directory like e.g. (setenv "HOME" "x:/some/other/directory") (load "~/.emacs) That way all subsequent references to HOME are redirected. benny _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
