Re: windows installer

[Yuri Khan]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> It is primarily
> for the naïve (a.k.a. "newbie") who just want to be able to invoke the
> installer and get Emacs installed "correctly", meaning that Emacs is
> available to any other program running on the system.  And that means
> being installed where other programs are installed (which gives them
> additional protection by system-wide processes and features), and
> being on PATH.

Being on the PATH is not a necessary condition. In the case of a
single user-facing binary, it is more efficient to register it on the
App Paths registry key.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee872121(v=vs.85).aspx