Re: Some findings and suggestion about Emacs on w32

[Guy Gascoigne-Piggford]

Also IIRC my version of gnuclient uses these variables to locate emacs 
so that it can run it for the first time if it's not already running.  
Since I think that gnuclient does stuff that emacsclient doesn't (such 
as remote communication with emacs), I'd be a bit reluctant to break 
stuff that gnuclient uses.

Guy

Jason Rumney wrote:

> "Lennart Borgman" <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Until that is done I think that no value except emacs_dir should be written.
> > Maybe cleaning can wait.
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> Noone has demonstrated any case where setting these variables causes
> harm, so I suggest that we just leave things as they are now. There
> are definite problems that could result from your suggestion if someone
> is upgrading from a sufficiently old version of Emacs (I don't know
> exactly how old that is, but I think 20.4 would probably be around the
> mark).
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> > (I do not know if the other values are ever read now?)
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> Yes they are. All variables under the Software/GNU/Emacs key are read,
> and treated as either environment variable or .xresources
> equivalents.
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