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Re: %AppData% on Windows instead of %UserProfile% by default?
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Fabrice Popineau |
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Re: %AppData% on Windows instead of %UserProfile% by default? |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:46:19 +0000 (UTC) |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> More importantly, we are following the platform guidelines, which
> say:
>
> CSIDL_PROFILE Version 5.0. The user's profile folder. A typical
> FOLDERID_Profile path is C:\Users\username.
> Applications should not create files or folders
> at this level; they should put their data under
> the locations referred to by CSIDL_APPDATA or
> CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA.
I think that it depends on how you interpret "their data".
Applications store data in %APPDATA%, but data which are invisible to the user
(browser web cache, history, etc.)
It is hardly the case for .emacs.d, it is not a byproduct of running Emacs,
or at least not everything in there.
And from this point of view, %UserProfile% is closer to what $HOME is under
Unix.
Actually, to make Emacs more "Windows" friendly would probably require
to setup a configuration quite different from the GNU/Unix one.
My $0.02,
Fabrice