Re: Default emacs init file location confusion

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  Robert Pluim <address@hidden>,
>   address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 11:16:19 -0500
> 
> > If the idea is to go back to defaulting to .emacs.d, that's a step in the
> > wrong direction.
> 
> It might be "stepping away from XDG" compared to what we currently have
> in Emacs-27, but it's still "stepping toward XDG" compared to Emacs-26,
> so it's still in the right direction, methinks.

In my POV, we are simply making the XDG support slightly more
conservative and cautious.  We certainly don't disable it or back it
out.