Re: Default emacs init file location confusion

[Mingde (Matthew) Zeng]

>> From: Elias Mårtenson <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 10:51:49 +0800
>>
>> I'm guessing that the $HOME/.config/emacs directory was created when I 
>> started Emacs before checking out
>> my .emacs.d from source control.
>>
>> Would it make sense to display a warning before creating this directory in 
>> the first place, explaining that doing
>> so will prevent $HOME/.emacs.d/init.el from being loaded?
>
> I don't think we create the ~/.config directory.  We just check if its
> emacs subdirectory exists.

I think he meant the emacs subdirectory was created without his knowledge.

>> I found a directory $HOME/.config/emacs. This directoriy contained a single 
>> file whose name I cannot remember. As
>> far as I can rceall, this file was empty. I deleted this directory and 
>> restarted Emacs. At this point my init file was loaded correctly.