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Re: [Fwd: Location of .emacs file under `su` and `su -`?]


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Location of .emacs file under `su` and `su -`?]
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:42:27 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> Yes.  I'm not sure why.  This contradicts the information in the Emacs
> manual, which says to use HOME.  Anyway, this is trivial to fix.  I'll
> check the following patch in over the next few days if no one objects.
>
> *** emacs/lisp/startup.el.~1.410.~    2006-07-24 00:18:47.000000000 -0400
> --- emacs/lisp/startup.el     2006-08-22 11:14:56.000000000 -0400
> ***************
> *** 865,871 ****
>                           ((eq system-type 'vax-vms)
>                            "sys$login:.emacs")
>                           (t
> !                          (concat "~" init-file-user "/.emacs")))))
>                     ;; This tells `load' to store the file name found
>                     ;; into user-init-file.
>                     (setq user-init-file t)
> --- 865,871 ----
>                           ((eq system-type 'vax-vms)
>                            "sys$login:.emacs")
>                           (t
> !                          "~/.emacs"))))
>                     ;; This tells `load' to store the file name found
>                     ;; into user-init-file.

How does this preserve the functionality of `emacs --user foo'?

Andreas.

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