From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:13:42 -0700 Message-ID: <871rxmuimx.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> References: <87ppom45ge.wl%arne_bab@web.de> <87k1bf6us6.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <878srv2gl6.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <85ftm2lcxl.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="170485"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Arne Babenhauserheide , 16242@debbugs.gnu.org To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 16 01:14:13 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 1hyOwc-000iCY-Sx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2019 01:14:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47824 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hyOwb-00079G-RS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:14:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42673) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hyOwV-00078v-MQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:14:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hyOwU-00054C-Iy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:14:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:43822) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hyOwU-000547-Fn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:14:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hyOwU-0005oO-Af for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:14:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 23:14:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 16242 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 16242-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B16242.156591083622320 (code B ref 16242); Thu, 15 Aug 2019 23:14:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16242) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Aug 2019 23:13:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52643 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hyOwO-0005nv-9B for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:13:56 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:48940) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hyOwL-0005nl-Lk for 16242@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:13:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [50.225.213.182] (helo=sandy) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hyOwD-0007vo-M8; Fri, 16 Aug 2019 01:13:48 +0200 In-Reply-To: <85ftm2lcxl.fsf@gmail.com> (Noam Postavsky's message of "Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:29:26 -0400") 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:165153 Archived-At: Noam Postavsky writes: > 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 Ah, I see. So I think the XDG patch should go in first, and then adding --init-dir should be pretty trivial. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no