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emacs -Q doesn't give me a clean slate

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Message #20 received at 79124 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 79124 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#79124: emacs -Q doesn't give me a clean slate
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 19:03:25 +0300

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu,  rms <at> gnu.org,  79124 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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.

OTOH, it's quite annoying to type the same responses to the NSM
prompts when trying stuff in "emacs -Q".

There is "emacs -D", which perhaps could be more "pristine".  Patches
welcome.

That said, these options are of interest only to Emacs hackers.

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