From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tommaso Rossi <tommaso.rossi1@protonmail.com>
Cc: 59795@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59795: 30.0.50; locate-user-emacs-file refer to relative path with --init-directory is passed as relative path
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2022 14:12:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835yeseldp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ARS8y26LgnIVnPW_ysunddEPANdGQpVnlgpOiqx-uZiyGEf2YJYW05X-TgY8TSgkbmha7vFOr2MG4BJPfykTpAmLQveDluPGqKk1-NVWfw=@protonmail.com> (message from Tommaso Rossi on Sat, 03 Dec 2022 11:31:59 +0000)
> Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2022 11:31:59 +0000
> From: Tommaso Rossi <tommaso.rossi1@protonmail.com>
> Cc: 59795-done@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Thanks for your reply.
> I think I didn't explained the problem very well, sorry for my english.
You have nothing to apologize about, I understood you completely.
> It is right that the init directory is interpreted relative to the
> directory where Emacs is started, what feels a bit strange is that
> when you change directory inside Emacs, the init directory becomes
> relative to the current directory for the function
> locate-user-emacs-file. I realized that when I found folders
> named as my init directory spawned everywhere in my filesystem, for
> example containing Transient (Magit) history or other files that should
> be in the real init directory.
>
> In Emacs Lisp code, it becomes difficult to locate the real init
> directory, because the user-emacs-directory is not absolute: if some
> library or package uses the locate-user-emacs-file function, like
> Transient, than this "init directory spawned everywhere" problem will
> raise.
The latest code should produce an absolute file name in
user-emacs-directory, which I believe fixes the problem you described. My
response just explained how will Emacs produce an absolute file name from a
relative one when it processes the --init-directory= option.
The fix is in the emacs-29 branch, soon to be merged to master, so you can
try the fix if you want.
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2022-12-02 12:47 bug#59795: 30.0.50; locate-user-emacs-file refer to relative path with --init-directory is passed as relative path Tommaso Rossi via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-03 10:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-03 11:31 ` Tommaso Rossi via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-03 12:12 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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