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bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file |
Date: |
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 11:17:23 +0200 |
>>>>> On Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:11:38 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>>>>> said:
Lars> Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk> writes:
>> The info page “49.4.4 How Emacs Finds Your Init File” says:
>>
>>> For brevity the rest of the Emacs documentation generally uses just
>>> the current default location ‘~/.emacs.d/init.el’ for the init file.
>>
>> However, this seems to be inaccurate: if I start Emacs as a new user
>> and make a customisation, that customisation is written to ~/.emacs.
Yes, we should change that to say '~/.emacs'
Lars> That is indeed the case still in Emacs 28 -- I thought we'd changed
that
Lars> to prefer either XDG paths or ~/.emacs.d/init.el when there's no
Lars> previous init file?
Emacs will prefer the XDG path if it exists and .emacs.d/init.el and
.emacs donʼt. Similarly Emacs will prefer .emacs.d/init.el if it
exists and .emacs doesnʼt.
If nothing exists, Emacs will create ~/.emacs.d, and use ~/.emacs as
the init file. We can change that to use ~/.emacs.d/init.el if we
want, people who already have init files will not be affected.
</bold prediction of there being no consequences>
Robert
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- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Peter Oliver, 2021/07/05
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/06
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file,
Robert Pluim <=
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Phil Sainty, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Robert Pluim, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Stephen Berman, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Robert Pluim, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Stephen Berman, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Phil Sainty, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Peter Oliver, 2021/07/07