-----Original Message----- From: ethersoft(a)gmail.com [mailto:ethersoft＠gmail.com] On Behalf Of Vin Shelton Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 8:55 AM To: Per Mildner SICS Usenet; Robert Abad Cc: xemacs-beta Subject: Re: Latest 21.4.19 windows native setup kit uploaded Dear Per, Thanks for following up. On 1/26/06, Per Mildner SICS Usenet <PerMildnerSICSUsenet(a)hotmail.com&gt; wrote: > > - The binary directory for the user's XEmacs installation gets added > > to the system path. > This is bad. You should not mess with the system global PATH. Just as a point of etiquette, I'd recommend using slightly less digital thinking. Design decisions may be "good (1)" or "bad (0)" from your point of view, but for most designers and users the decisions likely fall somewhere on a spectrum of goodness (even if you narrow the criteria to the one variable of "goodness"). Rarely are things either just "good" or "bad" and when you categorize them that way you run the risk of alienating the people you are trying to convince (i.e. me). > > If XEmacs absolutely needs to have special folders on PATH then it can > set it in its own process (to be inherited by sub-processes). I think understand where you're coming from. See http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200601/msg00262.htm l and the follow-ups. I believe Robert wants to run etags from a shell (not under XEmacs) and he asked for the install kit to take care of setting the path for him.

Regards, Vin