> From: Shanks N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:57:38 +0530 > > Jason Rumney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Shanks N wrote: > >> Is there a way to make Emacs-22.1 use the old behaviour of looking at > >> c:/ generally when nothing is specified as HOME instead of the current > >> <user>/Application Data? > >> > > If c:\.emacs exists, and $APPDATA\.emacs does not, then Emacs will > > default to using C:\ for HOME. > > > > Alternatively, you could set HOME explicitly if you need it to be a > > specific value. > > I think there is a small bug. If there is no .Emacs or _Emacs in App > Data/ folder and there is a _Emacs file in C:\, then Emacs 22.1 does > not read the _Emacs file. > > If I rename the _Emacs to .Emacs, then everything works fine;exactly > as you said. > > In C:\, Emacs is looking *exactly* for .Emacs and not (_Emacs||.Emacs) > when there is no init file (_emacs||.Emacs) in App Data/ > > Can someone reproduce the bug?
I don't think there's a need to try to reproduce it, since I clearly see this in the code: when Emacs tries to find a suitable default for the missing setting of HOME directory, it indeed looks only for .emacs in C:\. However, I'm not sure it's a bug.
