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Getting a fresh emacs session with no customisation

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: uzibalqa <uzibalqa <at> proton.me>
Cc: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>, 58459 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#58459: Getting a fresh emacs session with no customisation
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 22:19:03 +0800

uzibalqa <uzibalqa <at> proton.me> writes:

> Sure, but do you realise how long it took to identify the culprit after the 
> enforced settings did not even allow me to see the mode-line because of
> terrible contrast.  Make things easy for users, rather than even more difficult.

It is easy enough.  It is documented in the Emacs manual and in
countless pieces of system documentation.

> Who understands how Xresources works when a user does not even have a user-level 
> configuration dotfile in "~/.Xresources". 

Everyone who uses X is expected to have read the relevant documentation.
What resources are, and where they are found, is even explained in the
comp.windows.x FAQ, which is where you should look first for help with
any problems.

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