From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"?
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:01:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2pqlbcwbi.fsf@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3r55yiau8.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org
on Sun Jul 10 2011, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi-AT-gnus.org> wrote:
> If you run "emacs -Q", and you have a piece of code that calls
> `customize-save-variable', it will error out, saying that it won't
> overwrite the conf.
>
> Would anybody mind if I changed that function to not error out, but
> instead just do a `setq' on the variable in question, if we're running
> under -Q?
>
> Otherwise all the callers end up doing this very awkward thing:
>
> (if (ignore-errors (custom-file))
> (progn
> (customize-save-variable 'smtpmail-smtp-server server)
> (customize-save-variable 'smtpmail-smtp-service port))
> (setq smtpmail-smtp-server server
> smtpmail-smtp-service port))
My usual workaround for that and related issues is never to run emacs
with -Q. Instead I create an empty directory in /tmp and set HOME to
point there:
HOME=/tmp/test emacs
I think that *could* be a much better behavior for emacs -Q even if it
means you can't access anything you normally reach via ~.
Another option of course would be to populate the test directory with
symlinks to make it look more like my home directory, but I actually
never needed anything like that.
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-15 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-10 12:22 Change `customize-save-variable' to work under "emacs -Q"? Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-11 2:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-11 7:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-11 9:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-11 9:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-11 13:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-11 17:36 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-11 18:08 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-11 19:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-11 18:27 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-07-11 19:04 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-11 19:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-12 0:03 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-12 1:07 ` chad
2011-07-12 1:51 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-12 2:57 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-12 4:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-12 10:30 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-13 0:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-13 5:38 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-13 11:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-13 23:46 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-14 2:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-12 6:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-12 3:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-15 17:01 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2011-07-17 14:33 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-07-17 19:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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