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bug#33005: 27.0.50; Data loss with Gnus registry


From: Eric Abrahamsen
Subject: bug#33005: 27.0.50; Data loss with Gnus registry
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 08:46:51 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> > Would it make sense to change the default of gnus-mock-emacs-program to
>> > something like (expand-file-name "src/emacs" source-directory) or
>> > similar?
>>
>> Yes, that would probably work. But it still make assumptions about how
>> the user is working on emacs. Probably I should just default the option
>> to nil and ask users to always set it explicitly.
>
> Wouldn't that be the worst default since people are expected to use
> emacs -Q to start gnus-mock?

People are expected to use `gnus-mock-start' to start it, which does
"emacs -Q" internally. The only requirement is that the emacs be run
from a build directory, and not an installation.





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