GNU bug report logs - #25163
26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/)

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Message #47 received at 25163 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Richard Kim <emacs18 <at> gmail.com>,
 25163 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25163: 26.0.50;
 Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/)
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 05:02:16 +0100

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> 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.

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