Re: Default HOME to USERPROFILE on w32?

[Jason Rumney]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> 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. There was one exception: If c:\.emacs existed then this
> should be used instead. (See for example
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-10/msg01168.html).
>
> It does not seem like this has been implemented. Are there any
> objections do this?

No objections, I think there was consensus that it should be done, and
Stefan implemented something in Lisp, but Eli and I thought it better
to do in the C code where the environment is initialized, to avoid
some code getting a different value during startup.