"Eli Zaretskii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Cc: Sun Yijiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> From: David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:04:34 +0200 >> >> kpathsea, the library for most TeX systems, has a scheme where you can >> override most environment variables on a per-application base. > > I know all about Kpathsea, but I don't think there's any reason to > go to such complexities in Emacs.
I was not suggesting we implement kpathsea's search semantics. I was merely saying that there was already a well-established scheme for application specific overrides of general environment variables. And that makes HOME.emacs for such an environment variable the natural choice. This is not complicated at all, and I see no reason not to just follow that practice _if_ we decide that being able to override HOME would be a good idea. I am not sure about that, but the complexity of kpathsea is completely irrelevant for resolving that question. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
