Subject: bug#8220: 24.0.50; (On Windows XP) "c:\_emacs" isn't found during startup

From: Dani Moncayo <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:40:47 +0100

Hi,

1.- Set up a Windows XP system in such way that Emacs, during its
statup, can't find any possible "init file" (.emacs, .emacs.el,
.init.el, ...) in any of the possible paths it may look for (see [1]).

2.- Create a brand new emacs init file with the single sentence (setq
inhibit-startup-screen t), and save it as "c:\_emacs".

3.- Start emacs "normally" (whithout -Q, because we want to test the
search of our init file).

According to [1], Emacs should be able to find (and execute) the init file
created in #2, i.e., the statup screen should NOT be shown. But in fact
it is, i.e., Emacs could not find the file.

[1] (info "(emacs) Windows HOME")

-- 
Dani Moncayo

In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2011-02-28 on 3249CTO
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4) --no-opt --cflags
-Ic:/imagesupport/include'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ESN
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t