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bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file
From: |
Rudolf Schlatte |
Subject: |
bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file |
Date: |
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 13:28:30 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (darwin) |
Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> On Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:11:38 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>>>>>> said:
>
> Lars> 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'
>
> Lars> That is indeed the case still in Emacs 28 -- I thought we'd changed
> that
> Lars> to prefer either XDG paths or ~/.emacs.d/init.el when there's no
> Lars> previous init file?
>
> Emacs will prefer the XDG path if it exists and .emacs.d/init.el and
> .emacs donʼt. Similarly Emacs will prefer .emacs.d/init.el if it
> exists and .emacs doesnʼt.
I wonder if it would make sense to warn during startup if more than one
of these files exist, something like: "Warning: multiple init files
detected. Using ~/.emacs as init file, ignoring ~/.emacs.d/init.el"
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Peter Oliver, 2021/07/05
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/06
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Phil Sainty, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Robert Pluim, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Stephen Berman, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Robert Pluim, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Stephen Berman, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Phil Sainty, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Peter Oliver, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Phil Sainty, 2021/07/07