Re: [External] : Running emacs without any customisation

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2022 at 12:38 PM
> From: "Po Lu" <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: pquessev@gmail.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [External] :  Running emacs without any customisation
>
> 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.

Aren't X resource settings overriding the equivalent settings in Emacs
init files for parameters of the initial frame?