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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 47298@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47298: Emacs creates HOME if it does not exist
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:55:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YFg/cS4usyvAmJzS@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20lfag5rru.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

* Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> [2021-03-21 20:42]:
> IMO the Emacs 26.3 behaviour is correct, and Emacs should not be
> creating HOME if it does not exist. One may want to set a non-existent
> HOME eg for testing.

Warning is better as it gives control to user. Yet in regards to
testing with non-existent Emacs directory .emacs.d do you think would
there be some difference if an empty directory is created by Emacs
compared to no directory at all?







  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-22  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-21 17:40 bug#47298: Emacs creates HOME if it does not exist Glenn Morris
2021-03-21 19:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-22  6:55 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-03-22 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-25 18:28   ` Glenn Morris
2021-03-26  9:18     ` Jean Louis
2022-06-25 15:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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