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* bug#72294: 29.2; Emacs --init-directory=... puts user-init-file elsewhere
@ 2024-07-25 16:12 Sean Devlin
  2024-07-25 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Sean Devlin @ 2024-07-25 16:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 72294

Hi folks,

Recipe:

1. emacs --init-directory=/tmp/emacs
2. M-: user-init-file RET

The user-init-file is ~/.emacs, despite the flag to use /tmp/emacs as
the init directory.

Maybe this is intended behavior, but I found it confusing. The manual
says this about the flag:

"Specify the directory to use when looking for the Emacs init files."

I interpreted this to mean all init files, including the user-init-file.

A workaround is to create /tmp/emacs/init.el before starting Emacs:

1. mkdir -p /tmp/emacs
2. touch /tmp/emacs/init.el
3. emacs --init-directory=/tmp/emacs

Thanks!

In GNU Emacs 29.2 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin21.6.0, NS
appkit-2113.60 Version 12.6.6 (Build 21G646)) of 2024-01-18 built on
armbob.lan
Windowing system distributor 'Apple'
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2024-07-25 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-25 19:59   ` Sean Devlin
2024-07-26  6:15     ` Robert Pluim
2024-07-26 10:34       ` Eli Zaretskii
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2024-07-26 12:03           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-26 12:14             ` Robert Pluim
2024-07-26 13:48               ` Sean Devlin
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