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Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version contr
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:46:42 +0300 |
> From: CHENG Gao <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:41:52 +0800
>
> IIRC, there is no fallback dir for HOME under GNU/Linux and BSD, and
> user always (and should) know where HOME is. Why Windoze is so special
> that a (or even some) fallback dir(s) is(are) provided?
Because a GNU/Linux system _always_ has the HOME environment variable
defined for every user, while a Windows system doesn't. So Emacs that
runs on Windows needs to find some place to look for its per-user
files if HOME is not defined; it cannot rely on the fact that HOME is
_always_ defined. By contrast, a GNU/Linux system where HOME is not
defined is broken in many ways, so Emacs on GNU/Linux does not need
to consider such a situation.
> Even Windoze users should know where HOME is.
I hope by now you understand why they do NOT know. The notion of a
HOME directory simply doesn't exist on Windows.
> Maybe the clearer and simpler solution is to tell users to set HOME dir
> explicitly in manual.
That's not a good idea, since one needs a working Emacs to read the
manual.
> If a user can not handle HOME thing, my suggestion is DONT use
> Emacs. notepad.exe is better choice.
Why treat users harshly when we can solve the issue in the code. As
we have, actually, which is why I think it's pointless to discuss such
suggestions now.
- Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs, (continued)
- Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs, Richard Stallman, 2006/09/20
- Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs, Patrick Drechsler, 2006/09/21
- Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs, CHENG Gao, 2006/09/21
- Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs, Jason Rumney, 2006/09/21
- Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs, Richard Stallman, 2006/09/21
- Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/09/22
- Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs, Richard Stallman, 2006/09/22
- Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/09/23
- Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs, CHENG Gao, 2006/09/21
- Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs, CHENG Gao, 2006/09/22
- Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/09/23
- Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs, Jason Rumney, 2006/09/23
Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs, Eric Hanchrow, 2006/09/20