bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file

[Peter Oliver]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2021, Robert Pluim wrote:

> 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.

Sounds good to me.

If we’re making a change, here, it may be worth going all the way: create 
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs if it and ~/.emacs.d don’t exist, and hence use 
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/init.el when creating a new initialisation file.

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Peter Oliver