Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:15:24 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>     The case found by the original poster is when $HOME is not set in the 
>     environment. In Emacs 22 we default to the user specific APPDATA system 
>     directory, but we first check that C:\.emacs and C:\_emacs do not exist, 
>     in case the user used a previous version of  Emacs that defaulted to 
>     C:\. The original poster had created C:\.emacs.d\init.el, but we do not 
>     check for this file when deciding whether to default to the old HOME 
>     location, since it is only supported since Emacs 22.
> 
> Perhaps Emacs should check for C:\.emacs.d\ also.
> Why not?

I think Jason gave the reason in the last sentence above: becase the
~/.emacs.d/init.el feature was added only in Emacs 22, so users of
older versions will not have their init files there.