Subject: bug#47298: Emacs creates HOME if it does not exist

From: Jean Louis <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:55:45 +0300

* Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> [2021-03-21 20:42]:
> IMO the Emacs 26.3 behaviour is correct, and Emacs should not be
> creating HOME if it does not exist. One may want to set a non-existent
> HOME eg for testing.

Warning is better as it gives control to user. Yet in regards to
testing with non-existent Emacs directory .emacs.d do you think would
there be some difference if an empty directory is created by Emacs
compared to no directory at all?