bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments

bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug, and
the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give a recipe
starting from `emacs -Q':

Dear Emacs Hackers,

There are nowadays quite a few customized Emacs environments (like
prelude, emacs-for-python, elpy, and so forth), and testing them
quickly can be quite a challenge, because they need to be intergrated
with the local customizations.

To ease that, it would be nice, if I could simply set the directory to
use for my init with a commandline flag.

This would make it possible to specialize my local emacs in several
different ways - and to quickly show not-yet-emacs-users how emacs
would work for their task: 

    emacs --init-dir ~/emacs-init/python-ide # edit python

Best wishes and Happy Hacking Holiday! ☺
Arne


If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file
/usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc/DEBUG.


In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.2)
 of 2013-10-14 on fluss
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11403000
System Description:	Gentoo Base System release 2.2

Configured using:
 `configure '--prefix=/usr' '--build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'
 '--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' '--mandir=/usr/share/man'
 '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share'
 '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--libdir=/usr/lib64'
 '--disable-silent-rules' '--disable-dependency-tracking'
 '--program-suffix=-emacs-24' '--infodir=/usr/share/info/emacs-24'
 '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp'
 '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.1/../../../../lib64'
 '--with-gameuser=games' '--without-compress-info' '--without-hesiod'
 '--without-kerberos' '--without-kerberos5' '--with-gpm' '--with-dbus'
 '--with-gnutls' '--without-xml2' '--without-selinux'
 '--without-wide-int' '--with-sound' '--with-x' '--without-ns'
 '--without-gconf' '--without-gsettings' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars'
 '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-rsvg' '--with-tiff'
 '--with-xpm' '--without-imagemagick' '--with-xft' '--with-libotf'
 '--with-m17n-flt' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk3'
 'GENTOO_PACKAGE=app-editors/emacs-24.3-r2'
 'build_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'
 'CFLAGS=-march=native -O2 -pipe' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed'
 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Folder

Minor modes in effect:
  global-auto-revert-mode: t
  global-ethan-wspace-mode: t
  real-global-auto-complete-mode: t
  nyan-mode: t
  global-rudel-minor-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  kde-default-keys-minor-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  global-auto-complete-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  global-visual-line-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
l e a s e SPC o f SPC t h e SPC s o u r c e s SPC a 
l o n g s i d e SPC t h e SPC M-q p u b l i s h e d 
SPC f o r m M-q <C-left> <left> <backspace> <backspace> 
i n g <end> . <up> <up> <up> <C-right> <C-right> <C-backspace> 
b e SPC d e l i g h t e d SPC t o SPC s e e SPC i t 
M-d SPC u n d e r M-q <down> <down> <down> SPC <backspace> 
<up> <up> <up> <down> <down> <down> <up> <up> <C-right> 
<C-right> <C-right> <C-right> <C-right> <C-right> <down> 
<down> SPC <backspace> <backspace> , SPC b u t SPC 
a n y SPC l i c e n s e SPC i n f o r m a t i o n SPC 
i s SPC b e t t e r SPC t h a n SPC n o n e . M-q <down> 
<down> <up> <up> <up> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<return> b w <up> C-e SPC a n d SPC m a n y SPC t h 
a n k s SPC f o r SPC y o u r SPC A d v e n t u r e 
s ! <right> <down> <down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> C-c C-c y M-x w l - t o 
g g <tab> <return> y M-x w l <return> y f i r n i a 
<kp-1> <kp-5> <kp-7> <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <help-echo> M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - 
b u <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Blocking call to accept-process-output with quit inhibited!! [11 times]
Sending (1/1)...done
1 message(s) are sent.
Checking ".sent-mail"
Checking ".~/.local/share/mail/mgl_spam"
Checking ".~/.local/share/mail/to.arne_bab"
Checking "..gruppiert.directory/.inbox.directory/Freunde"
Checking ".drafts"
Checking ".outbox"
Checking "Desktop" is done

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bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> writes:

> There are nowadays quite a few customized Emacs environments (like
> prelude, emacs-for-python, elpy, and so forth), and testing them
> quickly can be quite a challenge, because they need to be intergrated
> with the local customizations.
>
> To ease that, it would be nice, if I could simply set the directory to
> use for my init with a commandline flag.
>
> This would make it possible to specialize my local emacs in several
> different ways - and to quickly show not-yet-emacs-users how emacs
> would work for their task: 
>
>     emacs --init-dir ~/emacs-init/python-ide # edit python

(I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately gotten no
responses yet.)

I think this sounds like a reasonable request, and I was surprised that
this doesn't exist yet.

You can achieve something like this with, for instance,

HOME=/tmp/foo emacs ...

or with --eval, but neither seem very logical.

Does anybody object to adding an --init-dir switch?  It would just
basically set `user-emacs-directory'.

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bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments

[Glenn Morris]

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Does anybody object to adding an --init-dir switch?  It would just
> basically set `user-emacs-directory'.

See https://debbugs.gnu.org/15539

bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> 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.

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bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments

[Noam Postavsky]

>>> 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

bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> 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.

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bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Ah, I see.  So I think the XDG patch should go in first, and then adding
> --init-dir should be pretty trivial.

Below is a stab at this, and it seems to work fine -- except that after
starting Emacs with --init-directory /tmp/, the async nativecomp never
fires.   I poked at it for half an hour, but was unable to determine
why.

Andrea, do you see something obvious here that would disable nativecomp
if user-emacs-directory isn't the default?

diff --git a/doc/emacs/cmdargs.texi b/doc/emacs/cmdargs.texi
index 5c444fc648..da9947ece3 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/cmdargs.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/cmdargs.texi
@@ -329,6 +329,10 @@ Initial Options
 Do not include the @file{site-lisp} directories in @code{load-path}
 (@pxref{Init File}).  The @samp{-Q} option does this too.
 
+@item --init-directory
+@opindex --init-directory
+Specify the directory to use when looking for the Emacs init file.
+
 @item --no-splash
 @opindex --no-splash
 @cindex splash screen
diff --git a/doc/lispref/os.texi b/doc/lispref/os.texi
index 3750abc4e8..25a2b9e2e4 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/os.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/os.texi
@@ -363,6 +363,9 @@ Startup Summary
 @itemx -Q
 Equivalent to @samp{-q --no-site-file --no-splash}.
 @c and --no-site-lisp, but let's not mention that here.
+
+@item --init-directory
+Specify the directory to use when finding the Emacs init file.
 @end table
 
 
diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el
index d90e7a7d26..41749848a4 100644
--- a/lisp/startup.el
+++ b/lisp/startup.el
@@ -550,26 +550,6 @@ normal-top-level
     (setq user-emacs-directory
 	  (startup--xdg-or-homedot startup--xdg-config-home-emacs nil))
 
-    (when (featurep 'native-compile)
-      ;; Form `native-comp-eln-load-path'.
-      (let ((path-env (getenv "EMACSNATIVELOADPATH")))
-        (when path-env
-          (dolist (path (split-string path-env path-separator))
-            (unless (string= "" path)
-              (push path native-comp-eln-load-path)))))
-      (push (expand-file-name "eln-cache/" user-emacs-directory)
-            native-comp-eln-load-path)
-      ;; When $HOME is set to '/nonexistent' means we are running the
-      ;; testsuite, add a temporary folder in front to produce there
-      ;; new compilations.
-      (when (and (equal (getenv "HOME") "/nonexistent")
-                 ;; We may be running in a chroot environment where we
-                 ;; can't write anything.
-                 (file-writable-p (expand-file-name
-                                   (or temporary-file-directory ""))))
-        (let ((tmp-dir (make-temp-file "emacs-testsuite-" t)))
-          (add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook (lambda () (delete-directory tmp-dir t)))
-          (push tmp-dir native-comp-eln-load-path))))
     ;; Look in each dir in load-path for a subdirs.el file.  If we
     ;; find one, load it, which will add the appropriate subdirs of
     ;; that dir into load-path.  This needs to be done before setting
@@ -781,6 +761,30 @@ normal-top-level
 	    (font-menu-add-default))
 	(unless inhibit-startup-hooks
 	  (run-hooks 'window-setup-hook))))
+
+    ;; Do this after `command-line', since it may alter
+    ;; `user-emacs-directory'.
+    (when (featurep 'native-compile)
+      ;; Form `native-comp-eln-load-path'.
+      (let ((path-env (getenv "EMACSNATIVELOADPATH")))
+        (when path-env
+          (dolist (path (split-string path-env path-separator))
+            (unless (string= "" path)
+              (push path native-comp-eln-load-path)))))
+      (push (expand-file-name "eln-cache/" user-emacs-directory)
+            native-comp-eln-load-path)
+      ;; When $HOME is set to '/nonexistent' means we are running the
+      ;; testsuite, add a temporary folder in front to produce there
+      ;; new compilations.
+      (when (and (equal (getenv "HOME") "/nonexistent")
+                 ;; We may be running in a chroot environment where we
+                 ;; can't write anything.
+                 (file-writable-p (expand-file-name
+                                   (or temporary-file-directory ""))))
+        (let ((tmp-dir (make-temp-file "emacs-testsuite-" t)))
+          (add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook (lambda () (delete-directory tmp-dir t)))
+          (push tmp-dir native-comp-eln-load-path))))
+
     ;; Subprocesses of Emacs do not have direct access to the terminal, so
     ;; unless told otherwise they should only assume a dumb terminal.
     ;; We are careful to do it late (after term-setup-hook), although the
@@ -1145,7 +1149,8 @@ command-line
                          ("--no-x-resources") ("--debug-init")
                          ("--user") ("--iconic") ("--icon-type") ("--quick")
 			 ("--no-blinking-cursor") ("--basic-display")
-                         ("--dump-file") ("--temacs") ("--seccomp")))
+                         ("--dump-file") ("--temacs") ("--seccomp")
+                         ("--init-directory")))
              (argi (pop args))
              (orig-argi argi)
              argval)
@@ -1185,6 +1190,9 @@ command-line
 	  (push '(vertical-scroll-bars . nil) initial-frame-alist))
 	 ((member argi '("-q" "-no-init-file"))
 	  (setq init-file-user nil))
+	 ((member argi '("-init-directory"))
+	  (setq user-emacs-directory (or argval (pop args))
+                argval nil))
 	 ((member argi '("-u" "-user"))
 	  (setq init-file-user (or argval (pop args))
 		argval nil))
@@ -1261,7 +1269,8 @@ command-line
 		(and (eq xdg-dir user-emacs-directory)
 		     (not (eq xdg-dir startup--xdg-config-default))))
 	    user-emacs-directory
-	  ;; The name is not obvious, so access more directories to calculate it.
+	  ;; The name is not obvious, so access more directories
+	  ;; to calculate it.
 	  (setq xdg-dir (concat "~" init-file-user "/.config/emacs/"))
 	  (startup--xdg-or-homedot xdg-dir init-file-user)))
 
diff --git a/src/emacs.c b/src/emacs.c
index f6e2c01ee7..2014e97fbf 100644
--- a/src/emacs.c
+++ b/src/emacs.c
@@ -2472,6 +2472,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
   { "-quick", 0, 55, 0 },
   { "-q", "--no-init-file", 50, 0 },
   { "-no-init-file", 0, 50, 0 },
+  { "-init-directory", "--init-directory", 30, 1 },
   { "-no-x-resources", "--no-x-resources", 40, 0 },
   { "-no-site-file", "--no-site-file", 40, 0 },
   { "-u", "--user", 30, 1 },


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bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments

[Andrea Corallo]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Ah, I see.  So I think the XDG patch should go in first, and then adding
>> --init-dir should be pretty trivial.
>
> Below is a stab at this, and it seems to work fine -- except that after
> starting Emacs with --init-directory /tmp/, the async nativecomp never
> fires.   I poked at it for half an hour, but was unable to determine
> why.
>
> Andrea, do you see something obvious here that would disable nativecomp
> if user-emacs-directory isn't the default?

Hi Lars,

I don't see anything any obvious here.  Well to be honest I don't find
many obvious things in our startup in general :)

I can only imagine that Emacs is not finding the source to compile from,
in that case we should get warnings, do you find trace of these?

BR

  Andrea

bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> writes:

> I don't see anything any obvious here.  Well to be honest I don't find
> many obvious things in our startup in general :)
>
> I can only imagine that Emacs is not finding the source to compile from,
> in that case we should get warnings, do you find trace of these?

I think I may have found what I did wrong in setting up the eln
directory, but currently the build doesn't work well with nativecomp
even without my changes -- require complaints about require loading
itself recursively, or something.  (I think there's a separate bug
report about that...)

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bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I think I may have found what I did wrong in setting up the eln
> directory, but currently the build doesn't work well with nativecomp
> even without my changes -- require complaints about require loading
> itself recursively, or something.  (I think there's a separate bug
> report about that...)

Yup, with your recent changes everything works fine, and nativecomp
works find with the new --init-dir switch.  So I'm pushing this to Emacs
29.

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bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments

[Glenn Morris]

Strange how the same request (with patch) was closed wontfix in #15539,
but now it sails through...

bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:33:09 -0700
> Cc: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>, 16242@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > 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.

The XDG support has been added meanwhile, btw.