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bug#25163: 26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/
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Óscar Fuentes |
Subject: |
bug#25163: 26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/) |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 05:02:16 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> Somewhat off-topic for this report, but -u is a bit rubbish, isn't it?
> "load ~USER/.emacs instead of your own"
> Nobody wants to load Fred's .emacs (since about 1983 on a VAX).
> What they want is to use some directory other than ~/.emacs in their own
> space.
Agreed. I was under the impression that -u was followed by an arbitrary
directory, but now I recall that it expects an user name. This is no
alternative to setting emacs-user-directory at all.
> (But that's bug#15539, which I'm a bit surprised to see was closed wontfix.)
It was after John Wiegley mentioned that you can set
user-emacs-directory to achieve the same effect, which right now it is
not correct.
- bug#25163: 26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/), (continued)
- bug#25163: 26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/11
- bug#25163: 26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/), Noam Postavsky, 2016/12/11
- bug#25163: 26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/11
- bug#25163: 26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/), Noam Postavsky, 2016/12/11
- bug#25163: 26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/), Óscar Fuentes, 2016/12/11
- bug#25163: 26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/11
- bug#25163: 26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/), Óscar Fuentes, 2016/12/11
- bug#25163: 26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/), Richard Kim, 2016/12/12
- bug#25163: 26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/13
- bug#25163: 26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/), Glenn Morris, 2016/12/12
- bug#25163: 26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/),
Óscar Fuentes <=