From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 47298@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47298: Emacs creates HOME if it does not exist
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:55:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YFg/cS4usyvAmJzS@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20lfag5rru.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
* Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> [2021-03-21 20:42]:
> IMO the Emacs 26.3 behaviour is correct, and Emacs should not be
> creating HOME if it does not exist. One may want to set a non-existent
> HOME eg for testing.
Warning is better as it gives control to user. Yet in regards to
testing with non-existent Emacs directory .emacs.d do you think would
there be some difference if an empty directory is created by Emacs
compared to no directory at all?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-22 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-21 17:40 bug#47298: Emacs creates HOME if it does not exist Glenn Morris
2021-03-21 19:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-22 6:55 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-03-22 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-25 18:28 ` Glenn Morris
2021-03-26 9:18 ` Jean Louis
2022-06-25 15:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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