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bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 16:17:55 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
>> For brevity the rest of the Emacs documentation generally uses
>> ‘~/.emacs.d/init.el’ for the init file.
>
> I guess because that's not the convention we actually use. :-)
> We say ".emacs" everywhere. AFAICT, the only place we even mention
> "~/.emacs.d/init.el" in the manual is this node (!).
Heh heh. Oh, OK.
> That's why I proposed to change "current" to "historical", but the word
> "traditional" is also good IMO.
But what about changing all the .emacs instances to ~/.emacs.d/init.el,
which is what we're trying to encourage, I think? (Even if we let
~/.emacs.el and ~/.emacs take precedence.)
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bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Robert Pluim, 2021/10/24