GNU bug report logs - #28708
27.0.50; [PATCH] Fix search for ~/.Xdefaults-HOSTNAME

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Johan Bockgård <bojohan <at> gnu.org>

Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 21:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Merged with 28712

Found in versions 25.3, 27.0.50

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #12 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Douglas Crosher <dtc <at> scieneer.com>
Cc: 28712 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28712: 25.3;
 get_environ_db not inserting dash after .Xdefaults
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 10:28:49 -0400

close 28712 26.1
merge 28708 28712
quit

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Douglas Crosher <dtc <at> scieneer.com> wrote:
>
> Perhaps src/xrdb.c: get_user_db() should be inserting a dash '-' between
> .Xdefaults and the hostname. Looking at a trace it tries to open
> .Xdefaults$HOSTNAME rather than .Xdefaults-$HOSTNAME

This was recently fixed in emacs-26.
This bug report was last modified 7 years and 284 days ago.

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