Hi, I'm on a Windows 8 machine, and I'd like to invoke Emacs from a temporary environment that sets the HOME variable to the directory I want (because I don't want to set that variable at system level).
This approach work when I start an interactive cmd console and do: set HOME=C:\whatever C:\path\to\runemacs.exe But if I try to do everything with this single command (intended for the target of a shortcut): cmd /C "set HOME=C:\whatever && C:\path\to\runemacs.exe" I see an Emacs session with a *Warnings* buffer and this text inside: Warning (initialization): Unable to create `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/). Any data that would normally be written there may be lost! If you never want to see this message again, customize the variable `user-emacs-directory-warning'. Also, I observe that that Emacs session hasn't taken the configuration I have under "C:\whatever", even though "C-x d ~/ <RET>" shows the contents of "C:\whatever". I've also tried this command: cmd /C "set HOME=C:\whatever && set" and I see that the last "set" shows a HOME environment variable with a value of "C:\whatever", as expected. So, why doesn't Emacs do the right thing when invoked that way? Any idea what's going on here? TIA. -- Dani Moncayo
