Re: Deprecate _emacs on Windows

[Óscar Fuentes]

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:

> I agree that it is harmless. But it is also cruft, and cleaning must
> be done sooner or later, IMO. As I've said before, the worldwide set
> of Windows users of Emacs 24+ and _emacs isn't likely to be big.
> Forcing them to rename _emacs to .emacs (if they want to go forward to
> Emacs 24+), and so allowing us to remove exceptional cases from our
> code and documentation, is a net win.

Just a minor note: you can't rename _emacs to .emacs with Windows
Explorer, at least on XP.