Re: [h-e-w] Re: Emacs 22.1 $HOME

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Shanks N <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:57:38 +0530
> 
> Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Shanks N wrote:
> >> Is there a way to make Emacs-22.1 use the old behaviour of looking at
> >> c:/ generally when nothing is specified as HOME instead of the current
> >> <user>/Application Data?
> >>   
> > If c:\.emacs exists, and $APPDATA\.emacs does not, then Emacs will
> > default to using C:\ for HOME.
> >
> > Alternatively, you could set HOME explicitly if you need it to be a
> > specific value.
> 
> I think there is a small bug.  If there is no .Emacs or _Emacs in App
> Data/ folder and there is a _Emacs file in C:\, then Emacs 22.1 does
> not read the _Emacs file. 
> 
> If I rename the _Emacs to .Emacs, then everything works fine;exactly
> as you said.
> 
> In C:\, Emacs is looking *exactly* for .Emacs and not (_Emacs||.Emacs)
> when there is no init file (_emacs||.Emacs) in App Data/
> 
> Can someone reproduce the bug?

I don't think there's a need to try to reproduce it, since I clearly
see this in the code: when Emacs tries to find a suitable default for
the missing setting of HOME directory, it indeed looks only for .emacs
in C:\.

However, I'm not sure it's a bug.