[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#8220: closed (24.0.50; (On Windows XP) "c:\_emacs" isn't found during startup)

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> 24.0.50; (On Windows XP) "c:\_emacs" isn't found during startup
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> Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:40:47 +0100
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> Hi,
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> 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]).
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> 2.- Create a brand new emacs init file with the single sentence (setq
> inhibit-startup-screen t), and save it as "c:\_emacs".
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> 3.- Start emacs "normally" (whithout -Q, because we want to test the
> search of our init file).
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> 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.
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> [1] (info "(emacs) Windows HOME")
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> Dani Moncayo
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> 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'
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> 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
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> Re: bug#8220: 24.0.50;	(On Windows XP) "c:\_emacs" isn't found during startup
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> > Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:33:26 +0100
> > From: Dani Moncayo <address@hidden>
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> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 07:42, Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 06:56, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > >> More accurately, if %HOME% is set explicitly, then init files are searched
> > >> there.
> > >> Otherwise if c:\.emacs exists, then %HOME% is implicitly set to C:\ (for
> > >> backwards compatibility with older versions)
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> > > 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.
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> > 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:\"?.
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> Because we want to deprecate both C:\.emacs and the _emacs features.
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