From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37116: 26.1; User choice user-emacs-directory is not honored Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 18:33:26 +0200 Message-ID: References: <99676126.1919199.1566311626414.JavaMail.zimbra@laposte.net> <1564913112.2639585.1566327047431.JavaMail.zimbra@laposte.net> <1709344906.2816463.1566331892630.JavaMail.zimbra@laposte.net> <834l2bkzxn.fsf@gnu.org> <1152340580.835175.1566375890353.JavaMail.zimbra@laposte.net> <83y2zmjx1z.fsf@gnu.org> <891641150.2753162.1566490697114.JavaMail.zimbra@laposte.net> <83tva9b0x7.fsf@gnu.org> <399323565.2935545.1566494853304.JavaMail.zimbra@laposte.net> <83sgptay8e.fsf@gnu.org> <83ftlqimwq.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="202330"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: bruno.vasselle@laposte.net, 37116@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 24 18:34:10 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 1i1YzS-000qWH-4O for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sat, 24 Aug 2019 09:33:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=kKu76j5jBbdI0rz76IKqB85ykT7Zq2dUONbRP6HsFLQ=; b=YUAn9Oqso3doWFVwsaalITY2vP/lpYJqoTVgeezV4stn34WiqYeBzYwaw4SShE+Ahl MoE/Qe0bN8wqWKyLvxdNcb0DuuujsCHgGSfqtAxjM/j2v0zQX2Tb427Ku+ILyJsdmcFn uzMys/c/N4cnUQELOBInFjwT0Qbhb4aqErxyy0ga4f2iUkNM7mbLs6K6CG2xPWIob80D 5SKaW8S7KNyMFIw6kdDQS8aivYbJtAg1iwz9CsnR3lV1iczrH1p96V4ftKucBFc0ttNr 5XDZ7i2Ua95oBqb7HtrB5dP8pSl1JDgdakazu9+U46vchtRYJ4BOGgoyDJIn0GqaiJRr /hOA== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAVoah+qegAuV9VM4TeFnzwynXyOQlkX0oBeFQ7MTL3GIlZ5EJu0 RYl+18lfIi86ceo0C2bV3ThIcqdWWUcMCbln45s= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqxPL7SA+PMDKkszzW8mtM3VztRRXW0oUMyoyW4kEBED3A4GNA4IWrUpUMIOFjBzp3VoGgsvwsLWfNUquCRk6AM= X-Received: by 2002:a63:4c5c:: with SMTP id m28mr9217705pgl.333.1566664418410; Sat, 24 Aug 2019 09:33:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83ftlqimwq.fsf@gnu.org> 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:165782 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > I think the right solution for this kind of situation is to set > user-emacs-directory in the early-init file, instead of the normal > init file. Personally I'd hope that we can get the XDG code sorted out so that we could use the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable for this sort of thing. In any case, perhaps it's worth documenting how to properly set user-emacs-directory in the doc string. Best regards, Stefan Kangas