From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#47298: Emacs creates HOME if it does not exist Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:55:45 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20lfag5rru.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2275"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 47298@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 22 07:59:13 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lOEWv-0000UD-B7 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 07:59:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40588 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOEWt-0001yY-U6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 02:59:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49002) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOEWk-0001yM-2b for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 02:59:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:44394) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOEWj-0004nH-Qy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 02:59:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lOEWj-0001Rk-PJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 02:59:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Jean Louis Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 06:59:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 47298 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 47298-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B47298.16163962945501 (code B ref 47298); Mon, 22 Mar 2021 06:59:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 47298) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Mar 2021 06:58:14 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55940 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lOEVy-0001Qf-Ac for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 02:58:14 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:44287) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lOEVv-0001QR-Pc for 47298@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 02:58:13 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.53]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000001E07F.0000000060583FFC.000034A8; Sun, 21 Mar 2021 23:58:04 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20lfag5rru.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:202820 Archived-At: * Glenn Morris [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?