GNU bug report logs - #47298
Emacs creates HOME if it does not exist

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 17:42:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 27.1

Fixed in version 29.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 47298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47298: Emacs creates HOME if it does not exist
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:29:23 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 13:40:53 -0400
> 
> IMO the Emacs 26.3 behaviour is correct, and Emacs should not be
> creating HOME if it does not exist.

I'm not sure I agree with you.  What do other programs do in this
situation?  And if we don't create ~/.emacs.d, how can we save user's
customizations?

> One may want to set a non-existent HOME eg for testing.

That might mean we need to find other ways of isolating tests from
user customizations.

Does anyone else have an opinion on this?
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 24 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.