Subject: Re: bug#58459: Getting a fresh emacs session with no customisation

From: Christopher Dimech <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 21:20:29 +0200

> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2022 at 7:13 AM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <[email-masked]>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: bug#58459: Getting a fresh emacs session with no customisation
>
> > From: Christopher Dimech <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: uzibalqa <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked],
> >  [email-masked], [email-masked]
> > Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 18:36:43 +0200
> >
> > > And X resources are as much user settings as what the user sets on the
> > > init files.  So Emacs cannot but obey them.  It is user's
> > > responsibility to set up his/her settings according to his/her
> > > preferences.
> >
> > The user makes a good point.  When a user want emacs to obey x-resources,
> > the user specify the  x-resources in their init file.  Rather than obey them
> > when a user did not specifically ask for that to happen.
>
> That's not how X applications work, and that's not how Emacs has
> worked since day one on X.
>
> So please stop arguing, this is not going to change.

It is my prerogative to state my outlook.  And that also is not going
to change.