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Re: What about a seperate "HOME" environment variable under w32?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: What about a seperate "HOME" environment variable under w32? |
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Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:59:04 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) |
> If HOME is not set as an environment variable on w32, Emacs will read it
> from the registry (also used as the equivalent of .Xdefaults). Perhaps we
> could change the priority of these, so that the registry overrides the
> environment, since users are unlikely to set a specific HOME for Emacs in
> the registry and then expect to override it by changing their environment.
Until someone actually shows us some concrete scenario where the current
behavior is a problem, I don't see any need to change anything and I don't
think making blind changes like that would help much either.
I for one occasionally like to change my HOME envvar for a particular
process, typically to make sure no other ~/.foo file influences
the behavior, or as a user-level variant of chrooting. Of course, it's
typically under GNU/Linux, so it may not be pertinent for w32.
Stefan
Re: What about a seperate "HOME" environment variable under w32?, Stefan Monnier, 2005/04/25
Re: What about a seperate "HOME" environment variable under w32?, Lennart Borgman, 2005/04/25