Mercurial > emacs
changeset 64354:f5718c40311a
Default HOME on MS Windows has changed.
| author | Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:49:02 +0000 |
| parents | 0d9dece55815 |
| children | 5996c7d35acd |
| files | etc/NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Fri Jul 15 21:47:14 2005 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Fri Jul 15 21:49:02 2005 +0000 @@ -3044,6 +3044,17 @@ * Changes in Emacs 22.1 on non-free operating systems +** 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, +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. + +++ ** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.