From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: schwab@suse.de, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs creates emacs.d/ as root when using sudo
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 13:58:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwoh0iamw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3muhw8ih1.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 02 Jul 2019 19:16:42 +0200")
> (While I've had to chown plenty of .emacs/.emacs.d files in my time.)
> I'm not saying we should change anything here, really -- but it's a
> problem in practice that other editors, like vim, isn't as prone to
> being affected by.
I think the real problem is that Emacs is a bit too eager to create
~/.emacs.d. It should ideally try and delay this as much as possible.
At the same time, it helps keep things simple to create it (and files
within it) freely.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-02 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-01 18:01 Emacs creates emacs.d/ as root when using sudo Jeffrey Walton
2019-07-02 4:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-02 6:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-07-02 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-02 15:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-02 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-02 17:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-02 17:58 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-07-02 6:16 ` Teemu Likonen
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