Re: Default emacs init file location confusion

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,
>   address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:25:10 +0100
> 
> I donʼt think itʼs likely that people will accidentally create
> ~/.config/emacs

But such accident was exactly what started this discussion.  So
evidently the probability of that happening is higher than we assume.

> I feel that 'use x if it exists, else use y' is less prone to
> confusion than 'use x if it exists unless y exists').

The advantage of the latter is that it's fully backward-compatible.