Re: Request: Emacs configuration file locations needs upgrade

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 2 Jan 2001, Jari Aalto+mail.emacs wrote:

>     Emacs should offer a function interface to the configuration
>     files, which all package developers use. The functions
>     would generate the default name and the location for the filename.
>     User configurable variables would control the directory, PREFIX
>     and POSTFIX for the files.

While this change sounds like a useful feature, I wonder what will
happen with the default file names?

If the default file names shall change in any way, we will create a
backwards-compatibility problem, which will undoubtfully make users
unhappy.  Note that some of these file names, like ~/.emacs-places,
are in use for a very long time.