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Re: Default HOME to USERPROFILE on w32?


From: Juanma Barranquero
Subject: Re: Default HOME to USERPROFILE on w32?
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 00:53:57 +0200

On 5/24/05, Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> wrote:
> There was a discussion in oct 2004 about what to do on w32 if HOME env
> var was not set. I think the decision pretty much was to use
> USERPROFILE.

I didn't read it, but, why USERPROFILE and not, for example, APPDATA?
Emacs uses HOME to read .emacs.el, but also to write quite a lot of
stuff, and that seems more appropriate for %APPDATA%\.emacs\, for
example, that %USERPROFILE%\

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