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Re: [External] : Running emacs without any customisation


From: uzibalqa
Subject: Re: [External] : Running emacs without any customisation
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 20:42:57 +0000

------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 at 7:06 PM, Michael Heerdegen 
<michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:


> uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me writes:
> 
> > The problem is that one uses a fresh emacs session, emacs should not have
> > these x resources set up, because emacs will actually make use of them.
> > Whilst emacs makes use of them, I do not see that emacs can also refresh
> > them (remove them perhaps) to got the user vanilla emacs.
> 
> 
> It's technically not treated differently than other sources of
> configuration - or is it? Is there a difference compared to your init
> file, your site file(s), your custom file, your abbrev save file, etc?
> 
> I mean, you, the user, explicitly told Emacs to use these settings. You
> can suppress them being used using options, and you can remove them in
> the same way you added them. If you don't like that being a source of
> customization, just don't use it, there is redundancy (which is not
> wrong).

I have removed the init file, but emacs will force that configuration, rather
than use vanilla emacs.

I have not personally added them.  Nevertheless, how can I remove them exactly?
 
> What I also wanted to add: note that Drew doesn't even use X, so it's no
> surprise it's not on his radar. My situation is not that different.
> Many other users might use Xresources. They might not have an init file
> OTOH. Nothing special here IMO.
> 
> Michael.



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