From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 19:45:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <09f0b6af-213f-cc04-336b-00850ba0f3bf@cs.ucla.edu> <8ad91615-e621-7a10-72e2-03277676bd3a@cs.ucla.edu> <499f2cba-39b3-afe1-7039-fb4c3cf73ea0@cs.ucla.edu> <1154ad53-058c-53fa-3f4d-7026a6ec5b2b@cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="16319"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: Alexis , =?UTF-8?Q?Fran=C3=A7ois_?= =?UTF-8?Q?F=C3=A9votte?= , Max , Mike Carifio , Evgeny Roubinchtein , Noam Postavsky , John Wiegley , Oleh Krehel , 15539@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 03 01:46:16 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i4w1Y-00048W-9b for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2019 01:46:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40616 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i4w1X-0001l4-78 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 19:46:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56706) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i4w1M-0001kw-0B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 19:46:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i4w1L-0001gV-7J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 19:46:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:50265) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i4w1L-0001gO-3y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 19:46:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i4w1K-0002qB-Uj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 19:46:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 23:46:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15539 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 15539-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15539.15674679218305 (code B ref 15539); Mon, 02 Sep 2019 23:46:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15539) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Sep 2019 23:45:21 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59086 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i4w0e-00029g-TA for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 19:45:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47911) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i4w0d-00022q-Os for 15539@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 19:45:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42993) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i4w0V-00014W-Dj; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 19:45:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i4w0Q-0007Xs-V3; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 19:45:07 -0400 X-Spook: top secret Matamoros Defcon Failure InfoSec Bridge X-Ran: -,7f-,T>v5_xb-YIgu/)TDO|*[#o~tB~lM*mul-zk)1GqV0G{)nGA]P.InrnC~%.5D1HTS X-Hue: white X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <1154ad53-058c-53fa-3f4d-7026a6ec5b2b@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sat, 31 Aug 2019 18:56:17 -0700") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:166166 Archived-At: Paul Eggert wrote: > ... so this email is giving you a heads-up that I recently installed a > patch into GNU Emacs master that should allow something approximating > Bug#15539's requested behavior. For example, one can run Emacs like > this: > > XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/rms/.config emacs > > to employ user rms's Emacs configuration, instead of your configuration. This is an improvement, but it is not a proper solution to #15539, for some of the same reasons that "just change HOME" wasn't. XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not an Emacs-specific variable, so changing it will impact other things that may be called from within Emacs.