From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Running emacs without any customisation Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 07:14:43 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87edvceeph.fsf@yahoo.com> <875ygoedjr.fsf@yahoo.com> <871qrceb1r.fsf@yahoo.com> <82r0zbkegq.fsf@gmail.com> <82mt9zkbmz.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22713"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.7+37 (a90f69b) (2022-09-02) Cc: pquessev@gmail.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Christopher Dimech Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 14 07:15:51 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ojD31-0005lX-7I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2022 07:15:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43784 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ojD2z-0002Vt-WD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2022 01:15:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46094) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ojD2C-0002Tr-20 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2022 01:15:00 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:36701) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ojD2A-0002e8-7Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2022 01:14:59 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.5.18]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000056158.000000006348F04F.00002BAC; Thu, 13 Oct 2022 22:14:55 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Dimech , pquessev@gmail.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:139923 Archived-At: * Christopher Dimech [2022-10-13 19:45]: > You are completely correct Pascal. Emacs does take *.background > and much more from whatever there is in the x-resource database. > > Keeping in mind that the x-resource database can be modified by > programs the user does not fully have control of, I resist the > school of thought that says that one should obey the x-resource > database whatever they are. Using the x-resource database in > emacs blindly in unwise. It is not blindly as it is users' choice. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/