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Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:19:21 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

> No one picked up that gauntlet.  One piece of the puzzle that is still
> missing (at least as far as I'm concerned) for its solution is how to
> reliably determine on Posix platforms the directory where the invoked
> Emacs executable lives.

100% reliable can't be done, I think.

> I vaguely remember that the value of argv[0] is unreliable, and
> therefore even searching for it on PATH won't do.

Indeed.  That's the best we can do, AFAIK.


        Stefan



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