From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adrian Robert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Not loading the Registry settings Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:50:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4AAB93D4.8070201@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253643105 1664 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2009 18:11:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:11:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Emacs developers To: David De La Harpe Golden Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 22 20:11:34 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mq9ps-0005IV-Od for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:11:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54678 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mq9ps-0004ip-8C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:11:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mq9pk-0004fp-Cw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:11:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mq9pf-0004ce-Q3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37119 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mq9pf-0004cW-2D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:11:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:25454) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mq9pe-0005Ht-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:11:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qy0-f178.google.com ([209.85.221.178]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mq9pe-0000Nd-0l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:11:18 -0400 Original-Received: by qyk8 with SMTP id 8so3314564qyk.24 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:11:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:from:to:cc:subject :references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version :content-type; bh=DGreN3XTphiQj7w0phN9CnrF3LIFB3BUWRyjwmUNTdc=; b=TeJ1mR2f8zkb4atbK/L1RfFYW5P5AuzeCuDYeSKCy6s81P1qotAozMH71ruW8Rp2f4 3Rf/EOfq2NcaTCPg4QaO6j2rmlOAvlnZxD5Yf8sB6s97/lxSkw9EkU2S8OLO0IzIu3Bh 16HxM9qdyNQuu3FT/IAU2ROQuPZkuTQXV2vPE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=gpYP08HTb60JKc3dFkZe4ffHpHLMcn9ktYpe6DikCF2NX82bsl+ZF9O06RgpayGGPu AqEC98I7TA1WtdFkMhqlnRQ0+t23IkfLWE8mlrnTgPgFSRI0RKH7NWw6ZL33nvMVz6sK dZJjLNMkiBCa++pmOZ92bedl36LUn26ZwU1Eo= Original-Received: by 10.224.100.148 with SMTP id y20mr1030928qan.365.1253643075428; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from hermes.local (dpc6745214221.direcpc.com [67.45.214.221]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm37260qyk.12.2009.09.22.11.11.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by hermes.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id E32AE4D1B59; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:50:10 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4AAB93D4.8070201@harpegolden.net> (David De La Harpe Golden's message of "Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:28:04 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:115530 Archived-At: David De La Harpe Golden writes: > Juanma Barranquero wrote: >> I'd like to have a way to start Emacs with "emacs -Q" and have it not >> to load the values from the Windows registry. >> >> Adding a new command line option is easy, but I'm looking for the >> best, non-Windows-specific way. How it's Emacs currently forced to >> ignore X settings? >> > > If you mean X resource database settings, I suspect they are always > used unless you go all the way and -nw FWIW, under OS X the user consensus was that the semantics of -q/Q implied that user customizations should not be loaded even if they come from the resource database instead of .emacs. Thus, there is the "ns_no_defaults" hack in emacs.c. It would be easier to do this cleanly if other platforms choose to implement it as well.