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Re: $HOME default on w32
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Stephan Stahl |
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Re: $HOME default on w32 |
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Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:19:12 +0200 (CEST) |
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Hi
Stefan Monnier said:
>> Probably the correct constant to use is CSIDL_PERSONAL, which is the user's
>> "My Documents" folder.
>
>> It is not safe to assume that these well-known folders are somewhere under
>> c:\documents and settings, or even under $USERPROFILE, as in a networked
>> environment they may get redirected to someplace so that users can have a
>> common store.
>
> So what the difference between the two (conceptually) ?
> Which one should we use ?
> What does it mean if $USERPROFILE points to C:/foo/bar and CSIDL_PERSONAL
> points to U:/toto/titi ? What kind of file should go where ?
As far as i understand it $USERPROFILE points to the place where the
system puts the user files.. (directories like "Cookies",
"Favorites", "Start Menu").
While "My Documents" holds the users own files.
FWIW i use "My Documents" as $HOME because it is the most accessible
place when working with windowze. Every filedialog has an item "My
Documents", the second folder in the windowze file explorer is "My
Documents".
Since emacs encourages the user to edit his ".emacs" i think it would
be nice to have it in an accessible place.... My 2 cent....
Stephan
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Stephan Stahl
- $HOME default on w32, Stefan, 2004/10/25
- Re: $HOME default on w32, Lennart Borgman, 2004/10/25
- Re: $HOME default on w32, CHENG Gao, 2004/10/25
- Re: $HOME default on w32, Stefan Monnier, 2004/10/25
- Re: $HOME default on w32, Stefan Daschek, 2004/10/25
- Re: $HOME default on w32, Kai Grossjohann, 2004/10/26
- Re: $HOME default on w32, Stefan Monnier, 2004/10/26
- RE: $HOME default on w32, Jay Finger, 2004/10/26
- Re: $HOME default on w32, Stefan Monnier, 2004/10/26
- Re: $HOME default on w32,
Stephan Stahl <=
- Re: $HOME default on w32, Cheng Gao, 2004/10/27
- Re: $HOME default on w32, Lennart Borgman, 2004/10/27
- Re: $HOME default on w32, Stefan Monnier, 2004/10/27
- RE: $HOME default on w32, Jay Finger, 2004/10/27
- Re: $HOME default on w32, Lennart Borgman, 2004/10/27
- RE: $HOME default on w32, Jay Finger, 2004/10/28
- Re: $HOME default on w32, Stefan Monnier, 2004/10/27
- Re: $HOME default on w32, Peter Whaite, 2004/10/27
- Re: $HOME default on w32, Adrian Aichner, 2004/10/27
- RE: $HOME default on w32, Jay Finger, 2004/10/28