From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>, 16242@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:29:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ftm2lcxl.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878srv2gl6.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:33:09 -0700")
>>> Does anybody object to adding an --init-dir switch? It would just
>>> basically set `user-emacs-directory'.
>>
>> See https://debbugs.gnu.org/15539
>
> I see. So the general consensus there seemed to be that this could add
> some possible maintenance complexity, and that there wasn't really a use
> case presented.
>
> This report does add a use case.
Furthermore, we're currently looking at setting user-emacs-directory
according to XDG in master ([1] or [2]), so I think we've accepted the
maintenance complexity this might bring anyway.
[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-06/msg00154.html
[2]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-07/msg00699.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-15 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-24 15:46 bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-08-15 2:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-15 4:18 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-15 4:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-15 14:29 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-08-15 23:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-26 16:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-27 10:20 ` Andrea Corallo
2022-01-27 15:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-27 22:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-27 23:30 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-15 14:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
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