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Re: New version of cygwin-mount.el


On Friday 18 May 01, Christopher Faylor writes:
> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:39:46PM +0200, klaus.berndl@sdm.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?

Regards,
David


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