Subject: bug#73728: 29.3; Specifing an --alternate-editor for emacscleintw.exe with custom --init-directory does not work on Windows

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 21:32:46 +0300

> From: Jonas Großekathöfer <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:27:46 +0200
> Cc: Sebastián Monía <[email-masked]>,
>  [email-masked]
> 
> Can‘t Test test your suggestions right now. But as Sebastian suggests, I need a solution that does not involve admin rights. If I can use environment variables I could also try the ALTERNATE_EDITOR one…

AFAIK, setting environment variables for your user (as opposed to
system-wide) does not need admin rights.