From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: mina86@mina86.com
Cc: petewil@google.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] for review - Allow expansion of "~" (as opposed to "~user")
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:20:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vbiiosdd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y4neosuj.fsf@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:09:56 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: petewil@google.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > Based on all that, I think the most consistent option is to:
> >
> > 1) always check if ~USER/ directory exists for the ‘User foo has no home
> > directory’ warning;
> >
> > 2) user ~USER/.emacs and ~USER/_emacs on MS-Windows; and
> >
> > 3) use `expand-file-name' when setting `user-init-file' if init file has
> > not been loaded.
>
> Sorry, I cannot follow the logic that led to these 3 conclusions.
> Please explain. (And don't we already do all that?)
Btw, I'd like to reiterate something I already suggested near the
beginning: just error out if "-u USER" is used on DOS/Windows. I
think this should put all this issue to rest, and avoid unneeded
complexity, FAQs, etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-03 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-28 0:06 [PATCH] for review - Allow expansion of "~" (as opposed to "~user") Pete Williamson
2015-02-28 8:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-02 9:44 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2015-03-02 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-02 20:37 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2015-03-03 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-03 17:48 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2015-03-03 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-03 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-03-03 18:22 ` Pete Williamson
2015-03-03 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-03 18:38 ` Pete Williamson
2015-03-03 21:01 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2015-03-03 21:03 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2015-03-04 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
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