From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: Re: [jidanni@jidanni.org: just try once to create ~/.emacs.d]
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:48:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1FG3ts-0000Fr-SJ@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oe0mfdng.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:11:31 -0500)
> One day try
> # su - nobody
> $ emacs
> You'll get these messages, more than one a minute:
> make-directory: Creating directory: permission denied, //.emacs.d
> OK, but how about have it just try once, else "frequent visual bells
> may send some users into epileptic seizures, and who's going to pay
> for that?"
Can you reproduce it with emacs -q?
This could, conceivably, be due to code that depends directly on a
non-nil init-file-user, even if his init file is empty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-06 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-03 10:25 [jidanni@jidanni.org: just try once to create ~/.emacs.d] Richard Stallman
2006-03-04 15:11 ` Chong Yidong
2006-03-06 0:48 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2006-03-06 23:37 ` Dan Jacobson
2006-03-07 19:38 ` Chong Yidong
[not found] <20060308010719.26023gmx1@mx081.gmx.net>
2006-03-08 10:10 ` Sven Joachim
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