From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, snogglethorpe@gmail.com,
michael.cadilhac@lrde.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:14:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1EWlfJ-0000Z4-2s@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wtjuh114.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 21:29:27 -0500)
If normal libraries follow init-file-user, you could have a situation
where a user tries to write customization files into the home
directory of another user. This doesn't make much sense, but I don't
understand when it makes sense to set init-file-user in the first
place.
If the customized values that Emacs read _came from_ another user's
init file, the only place to store them back is into that user's init
file.
Ordinarily you won't be able to write that file. Instead you will get
a clear error message saying so. That seems correct to me.
Meanwhile, in at least one case you WILL be able to write that file.
Namely, when you are root and you told Emacs to use your own personal
init file. (In particular, this is what happens when you run emacs
under su.)
So we ought to make this work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-01 2:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-24 15:58 Use .emacs.d in savehist.el Stefan Monnier
2005-10-24 21:22 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-25 20:27 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-25 9:30 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2005-10-25 14:30 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-25 14:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-25 19:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <87oe5e977f.fsf@mahaena.lrde>
2005-10-25 9:59 ` Michael Cadilhac
2005-10-25 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-26 16:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-26 23:28 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-27 3:58 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-27 16:53 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-10-28 16:19 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-28 20:16 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-29 5:12 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-29 17:31 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-30 0:03 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-29 3:51 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-29 20:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-30 4:00 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-30 4:30 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-30 13:59 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-31 1:14 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-31 2:29 ` Chong Yidong
2005-11-01 2:14 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
2005-11-01 3:43 ` Chong Yidong
2005-11-01 5:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-01 12:54 ` Chong Yidong
2005-11-02 10:27 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-02 15:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-02 10:26 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-02 10:26 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-27 9:16 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-30 4:07 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-25 15:58 ` Richard M. Stallman
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