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

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Message #28 received at 8220-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz <at> gnu.org>, "'Dani Moncayo'" <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: lekktu <at> gmail.com, 8220-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#8220: 24.0.50;
	(On Windows XP) "c:\_emacs" isn't found during startup
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:47:21 -0800

> > > Well, sort of, because when HOME is implicitly set to 
> > > C:\, only the existence of .emacs is checked, not _emacs,
> > > while the same is not true for an explicit HOME or for the
> > > AppData directory.

A bug, IMO.

> > Yes, and I wonder why to have this inconsistency. Why don't check
> > always for the same alternatives of init file? Even when checking
> > under "C:\"?.
> 
> Because we want to deprecate both C:\.emacs and the _emacs features.

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

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

Just one opinion.

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