From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#25163: 26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 05:02:16 +0100 Message-ID: <87oa0gv5mf.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <8760mrdrfd.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <83y3zmeb8z.fsf@gnu.org> <83h96ae5ia.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8c2w18z.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83r35dddvv.fsf@gnu.org> <8760mpx011.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481601792 22861 195.159.176.226 (13 Dec 2016 04:03:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 04:03:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Richard Kim , 25163@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 13 05:03:08 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cGeJ2-0005Oh-IB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 05:03:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35207 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGeJ6-0005Yw-TK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 23:03:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42225) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGeIz-0005Yl-KH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 23:03:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGeIw-0005pI-Ha for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 23:03:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:52815) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGeIw-0005pC-FD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 23:03:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cGeIw-0006MB-7h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 23:03:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 04:03:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 25163 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 25163-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B25163.148160174724360 (code B ref 25163); Tue, 13 Dec 2016 04:03:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 25163) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Dec 2016 04:02:27 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39968 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cGeIN-0006Kq-HU for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 23:02:27 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp21.acens.net ([86.109.99.145]:47819 helo=smtp.movistar.es) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cGeIK-0006Kb-Kc for 25163@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 23:02:25 -0500 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A0B0202.584F72C9.007C, ss=1, re=0.000, recu=0.000, reip=0.000, cl=1, cld=1, fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown Original-Received: from qcore (83.42.30.136) by smtp.movistar.es (8.6.122.03) (authenticated as 981711563$telefonica.net) id 58386475011F4BC6; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 04:02:17 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:40:08 -0500") 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:126967 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > Somewhat off-topic for this report, but -u is a bit rubbish, isn't it? > "load ~USER/.emacs instead of your own" > Nobody wants to load Fred's .emacs (since about 1983 on a VAX). > What they want is to use some directory other than ~/.emacs in their own space. Agreed. I was under the impression that -u was followed by an arbitrary directory, but now I recall that it expects an user name. This is no alternative to setting emacs-user-directory at all. > (But that's bug#15539, which I'm a bit surprised to see was closed wontfix.) It was after John Wiegley mentioned that you can set user-emacs-directory to achieve the same effect, which right now it is not correct.