Re: [External] : Running emacs without any customisation

[Po Lu]

Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> writes:

> 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.

Whether or not the X resource database (it is not called the
"x-resource" database) is used is not up to us to decide.  Every other
program that supports resources uses it, and users can always set
inhibit-x-resources.