{"action":"closed","issue":{"number":8,"created_at":"2011-10-11T18:04:23Z","pull_request":{"diff_url":null,"patch_url":null,"html_url":null},"body":"You've convinced me to try emacs 24, so I am trying to fit it side by side with emacs 23 on windows. As part of that, I've moved the emacs-prelude dir to a different location, because I don't really use emacs.d style setup. And yet, because it's windows, I don't trust symbolic links. (Maybe I should.)\r\n\r\nI notice in init.el that you hardcode prelude-dir as\r\n    (defvar prelude-dir \"~/.emacs.d/\")\r\n\r\nI am curious if\r\n    (defvar prelude-dir (file-name-directory load-file-name))\r\n\r\nor some variant of that might not be a better value.","comments":6,"title":"Why doesn't init.el grok prelude-dir from the environment?","updated_at":"2011-10-12T00:35:10Z","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bbatsov/emacs-prelude/issues/8","id":1879147,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"closed_at":"2011-10-12T00:35:10Z","user":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/072b3b981a4e5bd0f572159a2c9df7cb?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jerryasher","id":666633,"login":"jerryasher"},"html_url":"https://github.com/bbatsov/emacs-prelude/issues/8","labels":[],"state":"closed"},"legacy":{"number":8,"action":"closed","issue":1879147}}