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From: | Noam Postavsky |
Subject: | bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments |
Date: | Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:29:26 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.92 (windows-nt) |
>>> Does anybody object to adding an --init-dir switch? It would just >>> basically set `user-emacs-directory'. >> >> See https://debbugs.gnu.org/15539 > > I see. So the general consensus there seemed to be that this could add > some possible maintenance complexity, and that there wasn't really a use > case presented. > > This report does add a use case. Furthermore, we're currently looking at setting user-emacs-directory according to XDG in master ([1] or [2]), so I think we've accepted the maintenance complexity this might bring anyway. [1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-06/msg00154.html [2]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-07/msg00699.html
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