unofficial mirror of bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Max <maxim.suraev@campus.tu-berlin.de>
To: 15539@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15539: comment
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 23:32:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c71f3ab-6322-c7fd-b98d-28f27d6c51f1@campus.tu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wqlqiayq.fsf@carifio.org>

As an Emacs user I would like to kindly request you to reconsider this bug.

I think that the added complexity (look at the patch size, and even that is more
comments than code) is more than justified by the convenience it adds. Yes, there are
some workarounds which are either cumbersome (like fiddling with symlinks) or break
things (like adjusting $HOME). Using straightforward approach is better because it's
100% backward-compatible, easy to use and aligns well with user expectations (many
other programs allow you to override default config location with environment variable).

best regards,
Max.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-03 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ 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
2016-02-25  5:48         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-11-03 22:32 ` Max [this message]
2016-11-04  7:28   ` bug#15539: comment 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

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=9c71f3ab-6322-c7fd-b98d-28f27d6c51f1@campus.tu-berlin.de \
    --to=maxim.suraev@campus.tu-berlin.de \
    --cc=15539@debbugs.gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).