From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Not loading the Registry settings Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:28:04 +0100 Message-ID: <4AAB93D4.8070201@harpegolden.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252758623 11317 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2009 12:30:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:30:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 12 14:30:16 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MmRk7-0002lp-7D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:30:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32946 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MmRk6-0004Oe-LA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:30:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MmRiA-00020B-Sw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:28:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MmRi6-0001v3-0C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:28:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50759 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MmRi5-0001uk-RT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:28:09 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:35925) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MmRi5-000760-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:28:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.47.108] (87-198-47-108.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.47.108]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85ACE8713; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:28:06 +0100 (IST) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090701) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:115224 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero wrote: > I'd like to have a way to start Emacs with "emacs -Q" and have it not > to load the values from the Windows registry. > > Adding a new command line option is easy, but I'm looking for the > best, non-Windows-specific way. How it's Emacs currently forced to > ignore X settings? > If you mean X resource database settings, I suspect they are always used unless you go all the way and -nw _However_ you can override them on the command line with --xrm i.e even if I have 'Emacs.Fontbackend: xft' in my x resource database, I can still do $ emacs -Q --xrm 'Emacs.FontBackend: x' and enjoy awful font rendering. looking at w32_make_rdb(), --xrm may work on w32 to override registry settings? (untested).