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Re: Default emacs init file location confusion
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Default emacs init file location confusion |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Jan 2020 09:22:12 +0200 |
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On January 8, 2020 7:33:20 AM GMT+02:00, "Elias Mårtenson" <address@hidden>
wrote:
>
> Given the large number of people who seem to have run into the same
> issue,
> most of which are users who have years if not decades of Emacs
> experience
> shows that something should be done before the release of 27.
>
> Having thought about it some more, I came up with this proposal: Emacs
> could check if both directories exist, and if so, provide an
> interactive
> choice for the user to pick which one to use. If the user don't want
> to
> have to answer this question every time Emacs starts up, they can
> delete
> one of the directories.
Here's my proposal:
. If neither the old nor the new (XDG compliant) directory exists, default to
~/.emacs.d (it will be created, as we did before)
. If both the old and the new directory exist, use ~/.emacs.d
. Otherwise use the XDG compliant directory
This will make the new XDG compliant directory an opt-in feature: users who
want that will have to create ~/.config/emacs, move there the contents of
~/.emacs.d, and then delete the latter, in order to have Emacs use the XDG
convention.
I don't like to pop up questions at startup, brcause users don't expect such
questions, and because people who would like to keep their existing ~/.emacs.d
and yet use ~/.config for other programs will need to respond to this prompt
every time they start Emacs.
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, (continued)
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/07
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/07
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/07
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/07
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Elias Mårtenson, 2020/01/07
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/07
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Elias Mårtenson, 2020/01/07
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/07
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Mingde (Matthew) Zeng, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Elias Mårtenson, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Elias Mårtenson, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Stefan Monnier, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Stefan Monnier, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/08