GNU bug report logs - #79124
emacs -Q doesn't give me a clean slate

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 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, 30 Jul 2025 17:33:26 +0200

>>>>> On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:29:40 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> said:

    >> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
    >> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,  Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>,
    >> 79124 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
    >> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:11:15 +0200
    >> 
    >> We sometimes also read from .emacs.d/network-security.data under -Q,

    Eli> Not at startup time, right?  You are talking about calling some
    Eli> network-related APIs.

Right. But itʼs still surprising that Emacs reads from ~/.emacs.d when
-Q is specified.

Basically it happens whenever `nsm-verify-connection' calls
`nsm-host-settings'. We could add a check for "-Q" there.

Robert
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