Suggestion: Setting the home-Variable with Installer
Daniel Ammon <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.emacs.xemacs.windows |
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| 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