From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:15:45 +0200 Message-ID: <838u2ahvwe.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wqlqiayq.fsf@carifio.org> <87twlas1s4.fsf@gmail.com> <83bn7ixdo5.fsf@gnu.org> <878u2akb58.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456334246 7452 80.91.229.3 (24 Feb 2016 17:17:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:17:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: flexibeast@gmail.com, 15539@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 24 18:17:14 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aYd3o-0006CN-6z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:17:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37238 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYd3m-0002N6-VI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:17:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55882) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYd3i-0002Mg-Ci for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:17:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYd3d-0003d8-NT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:17:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:46917) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYd3d-0003cv-Jy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:17:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aYd3d-0001DI-GK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:17:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:17:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15539 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 15539-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15539.14563341621608 (code B ref 15539); Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:17:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15539) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Feb 2016 17:16:02 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44040 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aYd2g-0000Pd-JZ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:16:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36379) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aYd2d-0000Hu-3P for 15539@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:16:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYd2S-0003HK-Se for 15539@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:15:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46759) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYd2S-0003HF-OB; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:15:48 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3725 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aYd2R-00032O-Un; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:15:48 -0500 In-reply-to: <878u2akb58.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:03:31 +1100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:113720 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: Alexis , 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?