Re: [External] : Running emacs without any customisation

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 12:30 AM
> From: "uzibalqa" <uzibalqa@proton.me>
> To: "Po Lu" <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Dr Rainer Woitok" <rainer.woitok@gmail.com>, "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [External] :  Running emacs without any customisation
>
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Friday, October 14th, 2022 at 9:57 AM, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Dr Rainer Woitok rainer.woitok@gmail.com writes:
> >
> > > According to this locic it's absolutely unwise to run ANY programme not
> > > written by yourself under your userid on ANY operating system not writ-
> > > ten by yourself, because doing so could modify or destroy ANY file in
> > > your home directory!
> > >
> > > After all the OPs problem arose from Trisquel (of all things!) providing
> > > unwise (according to the OP) defaults and the OP not willing to read the
> > > documentation or to REALLY follow the advise received on this list!
> >
> >
> > Exactly.
>
> Have not setup resources myself, just had my init file, which now in broken.
> With the x-resources setup, I cannot see the text in the modeline.  It may
> be something emacs relies on when there is no init file.  But think for a
> moment the situation where the x-resources are not beneficial for the user
> for a particular program.  Because I cannot see from where the x resources
> settings are coming from, I claimed those settings cannot be fully trusted
> to produce a workable emacs session.  Could emacs have a set of init files
> users can use in cases where they encounter problems and the x resources
> settings are not suitable for some particular emacs feature?

You can make a simple emacs configuration file crisis.el for the situation
when you break your init file for some reason or another.  At least you can
continue to work until you get things fixed.  Could include this in my project
but will take time for me to release it.  Meanwhile, make a simple crisis.el
yourself.

You can then call

emacs

or as has been said

emacs --no-x-resources

When you finally fix your init files in development, you can again call

emacs