"Eli Zaretskii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:08:51 +0800 >> From: Sun Yijiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> The %HOME% environment variable is used by many programs under w32, so it's >> really a mess sometime. > > Is HOME used for any other purpose than Emacs does: to store the > user's private init files? If some programs use HOME for conflicting > purposes, could you please name those programs and describe the > details? > >> I suggest Emacs use a different HOME variable=20 >> underw32, something like %EMACS_HOME% or %EHOME%. > > I don't think we should introduce such a variable without a very good > reason; hence the questions above.
kpathsea, the library for most TeX systems, has a scheme where you can override most environment variables on a per-application base. An analog construction for Emacs would be to something like (or (getenv "HOME.emacs") (getenv "HOME")) -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel