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

From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:20:51 +0100

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 15:47, Drew Adams <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Too bad.  $HOME as c:\ should not be treated differently from other dirs as $HOME.

It isn't, if you set HOME to C:\. Which you should, IMHO, if you want
to use it as home.

> And _emacs is a longstanding, positive feature, not something that should be
> removed.

Not according to the docs, which clearly say that it is "for
compatibility with older versions of
Emacs". Sooner or later it's time to go forward and abandon such cruft.

> Just one opinion.

Same here.

    Juanma