Re: [PATCH] Do not use ~USER/ on MS-DOS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michal Nazarewicz <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Mon,  2 Mar 2015 10:07:05 +0100
> 
> From: Michal Nazarewicz <address@hidden>

Thanks.

> * lisp/startup.el (command-line): Since ~USER path expansion is not
> supported on MS-DOS, use ~/_emacs instead of ~/USER/_emacs on that
> system.

Actually, ~USER/_emacs _is_ supported on MS-DOS, albeit somewhat
crudely.

> --- a/lisp/startup.el
> +++ b/lisp/startup.el
> @@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ (defun command-line ()
>                   (let ((user-init-file-1
>                          (cond
>                            ((eq system-type 'ms-dos)
> -                           (concat "~" init-file-user "/_emacs"))
> +                           "~/_emacs")
>                            ((not (eq system-type 'windows-nt))
>                             (concat "~" init-file-user "/.emacs"))
>                            ;; Else deal with the Windows situation

Silently substituting ~/ for ~user/ is not really nice, IMO.

So I don't see a good reason to make this change, thanks.  Let's let
the sleeping dogs lie...