bug#25163: 26.0.50; Unable to access `user-emacs-directory' (~/.emacs.d/)

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:

> So, taking another look at this, the warning *is* currently delayed
> until after init time (as are all warnings occuring before init time).
> The problem is, delayed warnings are displayed just after init time,
> which is just before --eval args are executed.  Maybe we should have
> --early-eval to go along with ~/.emacs.d/early-init.el?  Or maybe just
> require suppressing this warning via site-start.el.  The patch below
> makes that possible (maybe the first hunk isn't really needed, and we
> should just remove the user-emacs-directory-warning option in favour of
> setting warning-suppress-log-types instead):

[...]

> +(defvar warning-suppress-log-types) ; `warnings.el'.
> +(defun maybe-suppress-user-emacs-directory-warning ()
> +  "Apply `user-emacs-directory-warning' suppression."
> +  (unless user-emacs-directory-warning
> +    (add-to-list 'warning-suppress-log-types '(initialization 
> user-emacs-directory))))
> +(add-hook 'after-init-hook #'maybe-suppress-user-emacs-directory-warning)

I tried applying the patch to Emacs 28, but it doesn't seem to fix the
problem -- I still get the warning about the directory not existing.

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