GNU bug report logs - #11612
24.1; Defaults create warning on startup

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: yary <not.com <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 19:07:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.1

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 11612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 'yary' <not.com <at> gmail.com>, 'Eli Zaretskii' <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
	11612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:50:49 +0800

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

>> Could the warning message "Setting HOME to C:\ by default is
>> deprecated" also include "Move .emacs out from C:\"
>
> There is nothing wrong with having .emacs in c:\.
>
> IIUC, this change is about Emacs not looking in c:\ _by default_.  It is not
> about discouraging or forbidding anyone from setting HOME to c:\.

Given that in Windows 7 writing to c:\ requires administrative
priviledges, perhaps we should be more strongly discouraging setting
HOME to c:\ for users who are blindly copying obsolete instructions they
find on the internet.
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