From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37116: 26.1; User choice user-emacs-directory is not honored Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:55:50 +0300 Message-ID: <838srnlqsp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <99676126.1919199.1566311626414.JavaMail.zimbra@laposte.net> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="219588"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 37116@debbugs.gnu.org To: bruno.vasselle@laposte.net Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 20 18:56:25 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i07Qk-000uxU-9c for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 18:56:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39872 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i07Qj-0004i8-6H for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:56:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49066) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i07QT-0004Zo-OD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:56:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i07QS-0001p8-QV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:56:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53273) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i07QS-0001p0-NA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:56:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i07QS-0004sY-L5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:56:04 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:56:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 37116 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 37116-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B37116.156632015618730 (code B ref 37116); Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:56:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at 37116) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Aug 2019 16:55:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33860 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i07QJ-0004s2-Kv for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:55:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36676) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i07QI-0004rq-16 for 37116@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:55:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51260) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i07QC-0001af-KP; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:55:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2119 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i07QB-0000pM-Du; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:55:48 -0400 In-reply-to: <99676126.1919199.1566311626414.JavaMail.zimbra@laposte.net> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:165426 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:33:46 +0200 (CEST) > From: bruno.vasselle--- via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, > the Swiss army knife of text editors" > > Alright... but it's not legitimate: as I've set `user-emacs-directory', I should not have to furthermore tell > auto-save where to put its material. If I need to, this means I need to also for every possible package that uses > user-emacs-directory. And emacs still trashes my home directory. Does the patch below solve your problem? diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el index 32051c2..d753e6a 100644 --- a/lisp/startup.el +++ b/lisp/startup.el @@ -405,6 +405,7 @@ auto-save-list-file-prefix Directories in the prefix will be created if necessary. Set this to nil if you want to prevent `auto-save-list-file-name' from being initialized." + :initialize 'custom-initialize-delay :type '(choice (const :tag "Don't record a session's auto save list" nil) string) :group 'auto-save)