Re: May I publish a Windows Installer for GNU Emacs?

[Peter Lee]

>>>> Benjamin Riefenstahl writes:

    Benjamin> Don't know how you are setting the variable on W9x/Me,
    Benjamin> but on NT/W2K/XP, you don't needs a reboot for this.  I
    Benjamin> think you need to send a notication message so that the
    Benjamin> Windows Explorer picks up the new variable, but that's
    Benjamin> all.


Windows Explorer doesn't need it... Emacs (and cygwin if you have that
installed) need it, but they'll pick it up just be restarting the app.
If you set it at install, the first time emacs is started, it will
pick up $HOME.