Subject: Re: bug#8221: 24.0.50; Allowed names for the init file. Windows/POSIX inconsistence.

From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:40:15 +0100

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 22:36, Dani Moncayo <[email-masked]> wrote:

> For example: Why not accept "<path>\.emacs.d\.init.el" as a valid init
> file on Windows? (<path> being _any_ of the directories that Emacs
> currently checks for the `.emacs' file)

Emacs on Windows currently *does* support %HOME%/.emacs.d/init.el and
%APPDATA%/.emacs.d/init.el.

It does not support C:\.emacs.d\init.el (unless you set HOME=C:\) and
that's a feature IMHO.

    Juanma