From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Shitikanth <shitikanth1@gmail.com>
Cc: 55655-done@debbugs.gnu.org,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#55655: 28.1; package.el no longers respects `user-emacs-directory'
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:40:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmnGrtiOCQS-2fMatBQ97tH2tDh3mwbZeXMPva45VEB9cQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALjXJSSy4E+z+Ut15+HJ5mvNrECoX8BLxiN0vCgaMb1QG0jAcg@mail.gmail.com> (Shitikanth's message of "Fri, 27 May 2022 11:33:17 +0530")
Shitikanth <shitikanth1@gmail.com> writes:
> Great news! That's exactly what I needed
>
> Thanks for pointing that out!
Great. I'm therefore closing this bug report.
> On Fri, 27 May 2022 at 11:09, Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> [வெள்ளி மே 27, 2022] Shitikanth wrote:
>>
>> >>Could you give some more details about the use case that actually
>> > affects you
>> >
>> > I just have a couple of different configs and use them with
>> > "emacs -Q --load $config_dir/init.el" and set the user-emacs-directory
>> > early in "$config_dir/init.el". This was also the easiest way to try out
>> > other people's configs without disturbing your own.
>> >
>> > I guess I was always aware that this was an abuse of the init system,
>> > so if this is an intended change, you can close the bug report.
>> >
>>
>> FWIW, Emacs 29 added a --init-directory flag for these purposes. Here's
>> the NEWS entry of the change,
>>
>> ** Emacs now supports setting 'user-emacs-directory' via '--init-directory'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-13 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-26 11:07 bug#55655: 28.1; package.el no longers respects `user-emacs-directory' Shitikanth
2022-05-26 11:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-26 13:19 ` Shitikanth
2022-05-26 13:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-26 15:29 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-27 5:10 ` Shitikanth
2022-05-27 5:39 ` Visuwesh
2022-05-27 6:03 ` Shitikanth
2023-09-13 1:40 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2022-05-27 12:29 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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