From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:24:06 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Give more helpful warning about setting HOME
X-Git-Tag: emacs-25.1-rc1~61
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fd9fad0;p=emacs.git

Give more helpful warning about setting HOME

* src/w32.c (init_environment): Improve warning message that pops when
Emacs sets HOME according to existence of C:\.emacs (Bug #11612).

Co-authored-by: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
---

diff --git a/src/w32.c b/src/w32.c
index c26f14593f1..6948fdeeef3 100644
--- a/src/w32.c
+++ b/src/w32.c
@@ -2773,10 +2773,13 @@ init_environment (char ** argv)
 		  }
 		if (strcmp (env_vars[i].name, "HOME") == 0 && !appdata)
 		  Vdelayed_warnings_list
-		    = Fcons (listn (CONSTYPE_HEAP, 2,
-				    intern ("initialization"),
-				    build_string ("Setting HOME to C:\\ by default is deprecated")),
-			     Vdelayed_warnings_list);
+                    = Fcons
+                    (listn (CONSTYPE_HEAP, 2,
+                            intern ("initialization"), build_string
+                            ("Use of `C:\\.emacs' without defining `HOME' "
+                             "in the environment is deprecated,\n"
+                             "see `Windows Home' in the Emacs manual."))),
+                    Vdelayed_warnings_list);
 	      }
 
 	    if (lpval)