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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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