Suggestion: Setting the home-Variable with Installer

Daniel Ammon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.windows
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

IŽm using XEmacs on WinXP especially for Gnus on a German
version of Windows. So the problem is, that the german Windows version
uses a directory called "Eigene Dateien" instead of "Profiles". Since
$HOME is no usual system-wide variable in Windows, my XEmacs uses
"C:\Eigene Dateien\[...]" as $HOME, this is weird for two reasons:
First of all, my personal "Eigene Dateien"-directory is on drive D:
(ain`t much of a problem) and the second reason is that some utilities
like "ispell" can`t handle the space in "Eigene Dateien", so they won`t
find it`s files (like .hash-files for example), since I used to have
them in my $HOME-directory. I needed about an hour to realize this.
WouldnŽt it be great to ask the user where to set $HOME at
installation-time? And to inform the user that no spaces in the path
are recommended would be nice, too.

Bye

Daniel
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