OK, what the heck is an EMACSPACKAGEPATH key doing in my registry?&nbsp; And why does (getenv &quot;EMACSPACKAGEPATH&quot;) return its value. &lt;sigh&gt;&nbsp; I knew running windows was going to be painful again.<br><br>Anyway, if I comment out the code in 
packages.el:packages-find-all-package-hierarchies that parses the EMACSPACKAGEPATH env var, then configure-package-path is used and it is parsed correctly (this is in vanilla beta, without Vin's patch), and all the packages are found.
<br><br>I'm going to try again with Vin's patch in a second.<br><br>Robert<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Pluim</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:rpluim@gmail.com">rpluim@gmail.com
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<span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Sperber</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>&gt; configure-package-path: (&quot;~\\.xemacs&quot; &quot;&quot; &quot;c:\\Program<br>&gt; Files\\XEmacs\\site-packag<br>&gt; es&quot; &quot;c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\xemacs-packages&quot;)<br><br>Are you really using an up-to-date version here?&nbsp;&nbsp;The semantics of
<br>`configure-package-path' changed recently, back to the 21.4 version.<br>But you really should have this unset.</blockquote></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><div><br>With Vin's patch it's set by nt/xemacs.mak if PACKAGE_PREFIX is set, which it is in this case (in nt/config.inc).&nbsp; Unsetting it has no effect.
<br><br>What is the new way of telling emacs where the packages are?<br><br>Robert <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

--</blockquote></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="q"><br>Cheers =8-} Mike<br>Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla<br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"></div><br>

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