bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file

[Peter Oliver]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2021, Robert Pluim wrote:

>    > 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'

Here’s a patch to do that.

--
Peter Oliver

0001-Document-init-file-with-the-highest-precedence-as-.e.patch
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