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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: flexibeast@gmail.com, 15539@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:15:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838u2ahvwe.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878u2akb58.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed,  24 Feb 2016 15:03:31 +1100)

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>,  15539@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:03:31 +1100
> 
> > Frankly, I don't think there are important enough use cases behind
> > this request to add yet another option that allows to change a
> > well-established constant.  But that's me.  (Didn't see any
> > enthusiastic reactions from others, either.  Not sure what that
> > means.)
> 
> I think it might make sense...  it might make some debugging and testing
> cases easier, for instance.

You mean, the need to temporarily point HOME to some other place?  Is
that really so problematic as to require yet another knob in Emacs?





  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-24 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-06 17:08 bug#15539: 24.3; setting user-emacs-directory at command line invocation Mike Carifio
2015-03-13 15:01 ` bug#15539: Setting " François Févotte
2015-03-16  0:36   ` Glenn Morris
2015-03-16  7:28     ` François Févotte
2015-03-17 10:08     ` François Févotte
2016-02-15 10:31 ` bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory Alexis
2016-02-15 14:15   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-24  4:03     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 17:15       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-02-25  5:48         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-11-03 22:32 ` bug#15539: comment Max
2016-11-04  7:28   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-04 12:42     ` Evgeny Roubinchtein
2016-11-04 12:55       ` Noam Postavsky
2016-11-04 13:59       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-14 18:43         ` Glenn Morris
     [not found] <CAADsv94GP0tVZtsS0na6RWtOc+WpDDAYDZqw299hw6j5Rq8sUw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-04-01 15:24 ` bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory François Févotte
     [not found] ` <CAADsv96dEnf1aD+0=FvOHLPGXg2ARnL440Nya2ipQKRo648Dtw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-04-01 15:38   ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-01 15:49     ` Drew Adams
2015-04-01 16:48     ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-01 17:16       ` François Févotte
2015-04-01 21:03         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-02  8:12           ` François Févotte
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-07-21  6:59 bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Fernando
2019-08-27 21:57 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-28 16:11   ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-28 18:11     ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-29  2:14       ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-29  6:22         ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-29 18:30           ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-30  8:02             ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-30 16:18               ` Glenn Morris
2019-09-01  1:56                 ` bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory Paul Eggert
2019-09-02 23:45                   ` Glenn Morris
2019-09-03  6:29                     ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-08 14:54                       ` Mike Carifio
2020-08-13 11:06                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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