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> 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.html 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
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the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things. Mary Oliver