Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs

[Richard Stallman]

    The case found by the original poster is when $HOME is not set in the 
    environment. In Emacs 22 we default to the user specific APPDATA system 
    directory, but we first check that C:\.emacs and C:\_emacs do not exist, 
    in case the user used a previous version of  Emacs that defaulted to 
    C:\. The original poster had created C:\.emacs.d\init.el, but we do not 
    check for this file when deciding whether to default to the old HOME 
    location, since it is only supported since Emacs 22.

Perhaps Emacs should check for C:\.emacs.d\ also.
Why not?

Since it is a Windows-only issue, I leave that up to you.