Re: [PATCH] Fix `early-init-file' value when file is missing

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Radon Rosborough <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 15:10:24 -0800
> Cc: emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> 
> > This patch has the (possibly unintended) consequence that if ~/.emacs
> > doesn't exist, user-init-file is set to "~/.emacs.el", something I
> > don't think we want. Can you propose a change that will affect only
> > early-init-file, not any other init file?
> 
> Sure, no problem. I apologize for the oversight.
> 
> A revised patch which implements the same bugfix without changing the
> value of `user-init-file' is attached.
> 
> Previously, if no early init-file existed in `user-emacs-directory',
> then the value of `early-init-file' after startup would be
> ~/.emacs.d/early-init (note the missing extension).  This commit
> adjusts that value to ~/.emacs.d/early-init.el as desired, while not
> changing other behavior.  Note that when the early init-file did
> exist, then the value of `early-init-file' after startup was already
> correct; this commit fixes a bug that occurred only when the file did
> not exist.
> 
> lisp/startup.el (load-user-init-file): Update logic.

Thanks.  However, I would prefer to have this solved outside
load-user-init-file, if feasible.  This function is too central to
Emacs to make non-trivial changes there for such a minor problem's
sake.  Especially since we don't have a test suite for startup
functionalities.  I think the change outside of the function will also
be much simpler and thus easier to grasp.