Some time ago, Hrvoje Niksic wrote... |+ | Whatever we do, please note that (getenv "HOME") is definitely the | Wrong Thing to do. We should create a `user-home-directory' function | which would do the necessary magic of finding a system-specific home | directory. All the places that use (getenv "HOME") should be fixed to | use the new function. | | The suggestion comes from Ben. I think the better approach under Windows is to have a place for .emacs and stuff configurable. Usually a program is installed by a setup program in a directory with subdirectories. For XEmacs binary distribution, this would be a usual structure of XEmacs direcotries (bin, etc, lisp), with additional directories for packages (/packages), and user's files directories (/init for example), where .emacs goes by default. This is ok for a single user installation. For a multi-user or network install, usually there is setup program which sets up the already installed software for a new user of it. It usually creates icons, registry settings etc. This portion would ask for a place for user private package directory, .emacs etc. `user-home-directory' should work in this case; maybe the name should be changed to `xemacs-private-files-directory' or something like that, not to be confused with real "home direcotry" concept. Kirill