GNU bug report logs - #16242
24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: arne_bab <at> web.de

Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:48:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo, patch

Merged with 15539

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 16242 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab <at> web.de>,
 16242 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by
 commandline flag for easy custom environments
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:13:42 -0700

Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Furthermore, we're currently looking at setting user-emacs-directory
> according to XDG in master ([1] or [2]), so I think we've accepted the
> maintenance complexity this might bring anyway.
>
> [1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-06/msg00154.html
> [2]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-07/msg00699.html

Ah, I see.  So I think the XDG patch should go in first, and then adding
--init-dir should be pretty trivial.

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