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Re: Which files to proofread


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Which files to proofread
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 07:14:02 +0200 (IST)

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     Description of the emacs_dir environment variable. I am using this
>     variable too under GNU/Linux to switch to the cvs version of emacs.
>     So I am wondering if this variable is really MS-Windows specific.
> 
> I don't see any mention of it in the source except in w32.c.
> So I think it must be Windows-specific.

It is Windows-specific.  Normally, Emacs sets its value at startup so 
that settings in the Registry (which mimic X resources) that are relative 
to emacs_dir would work automagically.

So I'm not sure it's a good idea to set emacs_dir directly.




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