[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
Can you relocate emacs to a different location on the file system and have it still *just work*. That's the only use of the registry for windows-Emacs, AFAIK. -- Rex
