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bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory
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From: |
Glenn Morris |
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Subject: |
bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory |
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Date: |
Mon, 02 Sep 2019 19:45:06 -0400 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
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:
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> XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/rms/.config emacs
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> 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.
- bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory,
Glenn Morris <=