Re: [h-e-w] little problem (avoid automatic creation directory .emacs.d)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lubos Pintes <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 09:46:04 +0100
> 
> What about this setup? (I'm not absolutely sure it is correct)
> 1. Download the emacs distro and unpack it somewhere. Let call this 
> directory <emacs>.
> 
> 2. Create the <emacs>\home folder.
> 
> 3. Create the <emacs>\share\emacs\site-lisp\site-start.el with this 
> content on the first line:
> (setenv "HOME" (concat (expand-file-name (concat (file-name-directory 
> load-file-name) "../../..")) "/home"))
> 
> 4. Now your .emacs.d directory will be under <emacs>\home. And every 
> package you install, etc., will be ready for backup. What do you think 
> about this?

If you set HOME inside Emacs init files, Emacs _will_ try accessing
the C:\Users tree at startup.  That's because the startup code needs
to have HOME before it processes init files.

The _only_ safe way of avoiding the access to C:\Users is to have HOME
set in the environment _before_ Emacs starts.