Re: Emacs creates emacs.d/ as root when using sudo

[Stefan Monnier]

> (While I've had to chown plenty of .emacs/.emacs.d files in my time.)
> I'm not saying we should change anything here, really -- but it's a
> problem in practice that other editors, like vim, isn't as prone to
> being affected by.

I think the real problem is that Emacs is a bit too eager to create
~/.emacs.d.  It should ideally try and delay this as much as possible.

At the same time, it helps keep things simple to create it (and files
within it) freely.


        Stefan