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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
Cc: not.com <at> gmail.com, 11612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: Re: bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 07:22:54 +0300

> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: "'yary'" <not.com <at> gmail.com>,  "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  11612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:50:49 +0800
> 
> 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.

Maybe.  But the current situation was the necessary first step anyway,
because someone who sets HOME to C:\ at least did something deliberate
she might remember.

OTOH, I kinda gather that lots of people disable UAC on Windows 7, so
perhaps the issue is no more pressing now than it was with XP.
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