Re: ~/.emacs vs ~/.emacs.d/init.el

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 6/21/07, Davis Herring <address@hidden> wrote:

> It certainly should!  --user picks a _directory_ (the home directory of a
> user), and .emacs, .emacs.d/init.el, etc. are all conceptually relative
> filenames in that directory.

Yes, that's my interpretation, too. But ~/.emacs.d/ appeared at least
seven years ago (there's a reference in the ChangeLog from
2000-04-24). It's hard to believe nobody has worried about -u in all
that time. <conspiranoia>Something Else Is At Work...</conspiranoia>

> I hate to duplicate the
> `user-emacs-directory' variable (or whatever it ends up being called), but
> those filenames should really get `expand-file-name'd against a home
> directory chosen by that option (or by $HOME otherwise).

The Function Without a Name can take care of that easily, I think.

            Juanma