[tex-live] TL 2010 : Does XeLaTeX search for Emacs, and if so, why ?!

[Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> Because $EDITOR is set to emacs. If you don't want to start
> an editor, don't answer TeX's error prompt with 'E'.

But it's not, Taco : here are my encironment variables
(there is no way I would set EDITOR to Emacs !) --

Also see below for use of "E".

E:\TeX\Projects\Tests>set
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data
BIBTEX=bibtex.exe
CLIENTNAME=Console
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=RV-1
ComSpec=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
GS_LIB=C:\gs\gs8.54\lib;C:\gs\fonts
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\Administrator
LATEX=latex.exe
LOGONSERVER=\\RV-1
MAKEINDEX=makeindex.exe
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
OS=Windows_NT
Path=C:\Layered products\WinEdt Team\WinEdt;E:\TeX\Live\2010\bin\win32;C:\WINDOW
S\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem;C:\Layered products\Active State\
Perl\site\bin;C:\Layered products\Active State\Perl\bin;C:\Layered products\Gnu\
Win32\bin;C:\Program Files\Smart Projects\IsoBuster;C:\LAYERE~1\NcFTP;C:\Layered
  products\Synametrics\DeltaCopy;E:\TeX\Live\2009\bin\win32;C:\WINDOWS\system32\W
indowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\;C:\WINDOWS\
system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Layered products\Nmap;C:\Program Files\Micros
oft.NET\SDK\v2.0;E:\TeX\Live\2009\bin\win32;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Nero\L
ib\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Nero\Lib\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Nero\L
ib\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Nero\Lib\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Nero\L
ib\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Nero\Lib\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Nero\L
ib\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Nero\Lib\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Nero\L
ib\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Nero\Lib\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Nero\L
ib\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Nero\Lib\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Nero\L
ib\
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.PSC1;.PSC1
PDFLATEX=pdflatex.exe
PDFTEX=pdftex.exe
PERL5LIB=D:\TeX\Live\2007\perltl\lib;D:\TeX\Live\2007\perltl\site\lib
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 3, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=15
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0403
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
PSModulePath=C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\
SAN_DIR=C:\Layered products\SiSoftware\SiSoftware Sandra Lite 2009.SP3a
SESSIONNAME=Console
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\WINDOWS
TEMP=T:\TEMP
TEX=tex.exe
TMP=T:\TMP
USERDOMAIN=RV-1
USERNAME=Administrator
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator
windir=C:\WINDOWS

E:\TeX\Projects\Tests>

Yes, I know that E invokes an editor; my question was "Why Emacs" ?

This is Windows, for ***'s sake : maybe WinEDT, maybe TeXshop,
maybe EDT+, or even Notepad or Wordpad, but never Emacs ...