Mercurial > emacs
changeset 64360:0221abec4702
Clarify the location of $HOME on w32.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 16 Jul 2005 10:48:46 +0000 |
| parents | 29a15341c1f5 |
| children | f6c51e5ebecd |
| files | etc/NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Sat Jul 16 07:16:55 2005 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Sat Jul 16 10:48:46 2005 +0000 @@ -3048,13 +3048,16 @@ ** The HOME directory defaults to Application Data under the user profile. If you used a previous version of Emacs without setting the HOME -environment variable and a .emacs was saved, then Emacs will continue -using C:/ as the default HOME. But if you are installing Emacs afresh, +environment variable and a `.emacs' was saved, then Emacs will continue +using C:/ as the default HOME. But if you are installing Emacs afresh, the default location will be the "Application Data" (or similar -localized name) subdirectory of your user profile. This change means -that users will have their own .emacs files on shared computers, and -the default HOME directory is less likely to be read-only on computers -that are administered by someone else. +localized name) subdirectory of your user profile. A typical location +of this directory is "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data", +where USERNAME is your user name. + +This change means that users can now have their own `.emacs' files on +shared computers, and the default HOME directory is less likely to be +read-only on computers that are administered by someone else. +++ ** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.