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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 16:02:04 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: New version of cygwin-mount.el
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In-Reply-To: <5956-Fri18May2001203502+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk>; from starksb@ebi.ac.uk on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 08:35:01PM +0100

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 08:35:01PM +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote:
>On Friday 18 May 01, Christopher Faylor writes:
>> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:39:46PM +0200, klaus DOT berndl AT sdm DOT de wrote:
>> >This should be not so difficult: NTEmacs stores in the Registry of NT
>> >(Win9X, Millenium analogous) under the key
>> >"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/GNU/Emacs/emacs_dir" the root directory
>> >where NTEmacs is installed, e.g.  D:\Programs\Editor\Emacs.  The
>> >cygwin-setup-script could read this directory and add "site-lisp" and
>> >then store cygwin-mount.el in the resulting directory.  If the
>> >"site-lisp§ subdir does not exist it can savely create it.  Example:
>> >Root-directory of NTEmacs from Registry: D:\Programs\Editor\Emacs Then
>> >the script should store cygwin-mount.el in
>> >D:\Programs\Editor\Emacs\site-lisp.
>> >
>> >Would this be possible?
>> 
>> Yep.  DJ's regtool program could read the registry.  The problem is what
>> to do if the person isn't using NTemacs, though?  Should we put the file
>> in a temporary directory?  Delete it?  I dunno.
>
>With all do respect to Klaus's elisp, this seems to stray a bit far
>from Cygwin's remit.  If an NT-emacs user wants cygwin-mount.el, can't
>they just download it, put it where it belongs, and edit their .emacs
>(or _emacs) file?  Why should we expect setup.exe (or whatever) to
>automate this?
>
>Or am I missing something?

This comes up so often that I was just thinking that it would be nice if
a user had an easy way to get this onto their system.  Maybe we should
wait for doing this until such time as we can provide the user with
options.  I don't know how friendly it would be to install this into a
person's existing ntemacs setup.

Or, maybe we could put it in a "extra" directory and point the user
there.

cgf

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