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

From: uzibalqa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 16:06:21 +0000

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On Thursday, October 13th, 2022 at 3:47 PM, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > Cc: Phil Sainty [email-masked], [email-masked],
> > Stefan Kangas [email-masked]
> > Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 12:09:02 +0000
> > From: uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> > the Swiss army knife of text editors" [email-masked]
> > 
> > Emacs should take the user's setting in the init file rather than override them
> > with bullshit that you reckon has authority.
> 
> Language!

Because with an empty "~/.Xresources" emacs fills the customisations with whatever
the database decides.
 
> 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.

Untrue again.  Emacs obeys them because it decided to obey them.  If a user
wants to obey them, let him specify the file or the database directly.
But no, emacs wants to take them, whatever they are by default.  Emacs
can just fire vanilla emacs if it wants to, but it does not want to.