Re: Default temporary directory in Windows/NTEmacs

[Michael Albinus]

Andy Sheen <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Michael,

Hi Andy,

>>
>> Setting %TMPDIR% to a proper value before starting Emacs shall do the job.
>
> It looks like the temporary-file-directory is set using the %TEMP%
> variable if more than one of TEMP, TMPDIR and TMP are set.
> Unfortunately, TEMP is already set to a Windows style path and I can't
> remember what uses it (whether it is a Windows or cygwin program!), so I
> don't really want to change it.

I'm not an expert in MS WIndows. But maybe you could assign a variable
settings for %TEMP% to the runemacs.exe. Or you could write an own
startup script, just for Emacs.

Or you eval in your .emacs

  (setenv "TEMP" "/a/proper/value")

All of this guaranteed untested.

> Andy

Best regards, Michael.