From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 47298@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47298: Emacs creates HOME if it does not exist
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:29:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wntz9jws.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20lfag5rru.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Sun, 21 Mar 2021 13:40:53 -0400)
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 13:40:53 -0400
>
> IMO the Emacs 26.3 behaviour is correct, and Emacs should not be
> creating HOME if it does not exist.
I'm not sure I agree with you. What do other programs do in this
situation? And if we don't create ~/.emacs.d, how can we save user's
customizations?
> One may want to set a non-existent HOME eg for testing.
That might mean we need to find other ways of isolating tests from
user customizations.
Does anyone else have an opinion on this?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-22 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-21 17:40 bug#47298: Emacs creates HOME if it does not exist Glenn Morris
2021-03-21 19:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-22 6:55 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-22 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-03-25 18:28 ` Glenn Morris
2021-03-26 9:18 ` Jean Louis
2022-06-25 15:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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