Re: [External] : Running emacs without any customisation

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2022 at 3:04 AM
> From: "Pascal Quesseveur" <pquessev@gmail.com>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [External] :  Running emacs without any customisation
>
> >"u" == uzibalqa  <uzibalqa@proton.me> a écrit :
> 
>   u> Hello Pascal.  Someone said that other parameters besides those
>   u> tagged EMACS could affect emacs configuration.
> 
> It could happen that a general resource can affect emacs. If I'm not
> mistaken if there is a general resource eg. *.background it could be
> applied to a client if the client does not set the value by some
> means.

You are completely correct Pascal.  Emacs does take *.background
and much more from whatever there is in the x-resource database.

Keeping in mind that the x-resource database can be modified by
programs the user does not fully have control of, I resist the 
school of thought that says that one should obey the x-resource
database whatever they are.  Using the x-resource database in
emacs blindly in unwise.
 
>   u> happen if I remove all x-resource setting from the database.
>   u> Would you reckon serious repercussions, a user might not be aware
>   u> he is doing?
> 
> It's hard to say because it depends on how other programs work.
> 
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> -- 
> Pascal Quesseveur
> pquessev@gmail.com
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