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emacs -Q doesn't give me a clean slate

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
Cc: rpluim <at> gmail.com, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 79124 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#79124: emacs -Q doesn't give me a clean slate
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:07:45 +0300

> From: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  rpluim <at> gmail.com,  79124 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>   rms <at> gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:16:27 +0200
> 
> Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> 
> > Although these are not fatal objections, they're messes that we're
> > better off without. Testing should be simple, not complicated.
> 
> Yes of course.  The second part of my idea is that maybe -Q could be a
> shortcut for "-q --no-site-file --no-splash
> --init-directory=$TMPDIR_SOMEWHERE_THAT_WOULD_BE_DELETED_WHEN_QUITTING"

That's an incompatible change, so we cannot easily make -Q do that.
No one said that -Q makes the user's home directory inaccessible.

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