From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>,
"François Févotte" <francois.fevotte@ensta.org>,
Max <maxim.suraev@campus.tu-berlin.de>,
"Mike Carifio" <carifio@carifio.org>,
"Evgeny Roubinchtein" <zhenya1007@gmail.com>,
"Noam Postavsky" <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>,
"John Wiegley" <jwiegley@gmail.com>,
"Oleh Krehel" <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>,
15539@debbugs.gnu.org, "Lars Ingebrigtsen" <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 19:45:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pba7bm9sal.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1154ad53-058c-53fa-3f4d-7026a6ec5b2b@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sat, 31 Aug 2019 18:56:17 -0700")
Paul Eggert wrote:
> ... so this email is giving you a heads-up that I recently installed a
> patch into GNU Emacs master that should allow something approximating
> Bug#15539's requested behavior. For example, one can run Emacs like
> this:
>
> XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/rms/.config emacs
>
> to employ user rms's Emacs configuration, instead of your configuration.
This is an improvement, but it is not a proper solution to #15539, for
some of the same reasons that "just change HOME" wasn't. XDG_CONFIG_HOME
is not an Emacs-specific variable, so changing it will impact other
things that may be called from within Emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-02 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-21 6:59 bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Fernando
2012-12-08 12:18 ` bug#583: XDG basedir specification Eric Heintzmann
2012-12-08 19:06 ` Jan Djärv
2012-12-08 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-27 21:57 ` bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Paul Eggert
2019-08-28 16:11 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-28 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-28 16:50 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-28 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-29 2:17 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-29 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-28 18:11 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-29 2:14 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-29 6:22 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-29 8:42 ` Štěpán Němec
2019-08-29 18:30 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-29 18:35 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-29 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-30 8:02 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-30 16:18 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-30 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-01 1:56 ` bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory Paul Eggert
2019-09-02 23:45 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2019-09-03 6:29 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-08 14:54 ` Mike Carifio
2020-08-13 11:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-01 2:02 ` bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Paul Eggert
2019-09-01 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-01 18:40 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-01 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-01 23:01 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-31 21:51 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-11 9:21 ` Sven Joachim
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-10-06 17:08 bug#15539: 24.3; setting user-emacs-directory at command line invocation Mike Carifio
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
[not found] <CAADsv94GP0tVZtsS0na6RWtOc+WpDDAYDZqw299hw6j5Rq8sUw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-04-01 15:24 ` François Févotte
[not found] ` <CAADsv96dEnf1aD+0=FvOHLPGXg2ARnL440Nya2ipQKRo648Dtw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-04-01 15:38 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-01 15:49 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-01 16:48 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-01 17:16 ` François Févotte
2015-04-01 21:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-02 8:12 ` François Févotte
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