Karel Sprenger wrote: > Neil J Mackie wrote: > > I'm unsure how much of the recent discussion on this list about > > registry keys and installers is official emacs policy, I just > > want to let the developers know that using these things will > > prevent me using emacs anywhere other than at home. Is that what > > they want? > > Just as Neil I have been using emacs for ages, both on Unix (Sun, > Next, True64, Linux) platforms and on Windows (NT, 2K, XP), and I > have managed to do all configuration by means of the files > site-start.el and default.el in the site-lisp directory, plus the > .emacs and .custom files in the user's home directory. The great > thing is that I could use the same files on all platforms by > placing the relevant statements inside cond or if expressions. > Try that with the Windows registry.
I think the Windows registry is being used mainly for areas that are not really portable.
