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.help Subject: Re: Tell emacs a dir is not writable Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 20:23:29 +0300 Organization: GNU.Support Message-ID: References: <874kmemfyt.fsf@yandex.com> 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="1463"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ (1036f0e) (2020-10-18) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Colin Baxter Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 28 18:24:39 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1kXpBf-0000Iw-Dy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:24:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42318 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXpBe-0005YB-DM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:24:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXpAq-0005XJ-1b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:23:48 -0400 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:45379) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXpAn-0007AS-PQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:23:47 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.0.60]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002A0B3A.000000005F99A91E.00002885; Wed, 28 Oct 2020 17:23:41 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <874kmemfyt.fsf@yandex.com> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/28 12:20:29 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -3 X-Spam_score: -0.4 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=1.5, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:124789 Archived-At: * Colin Baxter [2020-10-28 20:17]: > Hello, > > I have made my ~/.emacs.d/games directory not writable since I do not > wish to have scores saved. How do I tell emacs this so to avoid an error > been thrown whenever emacs tries to write games' scores? shared-game-score-directory is variable you can set and then set it on /run/user/your-ID/ and directory will disappear on next reboot. -- Jean Louis