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emacs -Q doesn't give me a clean slate

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From: Rudolf Schlatte <rudi <at> constantly.at>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#79124: emacs -Q doesn't give me a clean slate
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2025 07:13:42 +0200

Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:

>>> this is better for testing, as test results do not rely on the
>>> contents of the user's home directory.

[...]

> It's a matter of priorities. If we want Emacs to be easy to test
> reproducibly, there's a real need for improvement here. If we think
> this sort of testing is unimportant, then indeed we should stop this
> discussion.

You probably are already aware, but (if my understanding is correct) the
code that is tested with a non-existent or non-writable home directory
is byte-code interpreted, whereas with a writable home directory the
code that is run is natively compiled.  So the tests will test something
subtly different than what end users will run.

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