Re: [h-e-w] Fwd: Re: Control frame size on startup from .emacs

[Rex Dieter]

address@hidden wrote:
> Karel Sprenger wrote:
> 
> 
>>Neil J Mackie wrote:
>>
>>>I'm unsure how much of the recent discussion on this list about 
>>>registry keys and installers is official emacs policy, I just
>>>want to > > let the developers know that using these things will prevent me 
>>>using 
>>>emacs anywhere other than at home. Is that what they want?
>>
> 
> Just as Neil I have been using emacs for ages, both on Unix (Sun, Next, 
> True64, Linux) platforms and on Windows (NT, 2K, XP), and I have managed to 
> do all configuration by means of the files site-start.el and default.el in 
> the site-lisp directory, plus the .emacs and .custom files in the user's home 
> directory. The great thing is that I could use the same files on all 
> platforms by placing the relevant statements inside cond or if expressions. 
> Try that with the Windows registry.

Can you relocate emacs to a different location on the file system and
have it still *just work*.  That's the only use of the registry for
windows-Emacs, AFAIK.


-- Rex