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Re: Default emacs init file location confusion
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
Re: Default emacs init file location confusion |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:53:47 +0100 |
>>>>> On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:46:34 -0800, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> said:
Paul> On 1/10/20 8:57 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Iʼll see if I can test it soon, unless someone beats me to it.
>> Any news with this? I'd like to have this in the repository ASAP, so
>> that the pretest (which is expected soonish) will have it.
Paul> Which version is "this"? It's kind of a long thread....
I think "this" is something like the following.
;; Return the name of the init file directory for Emacs, assuming
;; XDG-DIR is the XDG location and USER-NAME is the user name. If
;; USER-NAME is nil or "", use the current user. Prefer the XDG
;; location only if the .emacs.d location does not exist.
(defun startup--xdg-or-homedot (xdg-dir user-name)
(let ((emacs-d-dir (concat "~" user-name
(if (eq system-type 'ms-dos)
"/_emacs.d/"
"/.emacs.d/"))))
(cond
((or (file-exists-p emacs-d-dir)
(if (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
(if (file-directory-p (concat "~" user-name))
(directory-files (concat "~" user-name) nil
"\\`[._]emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?\\'"))
(file-exists-p (concat "~" init-file-user
(if (eq system-type 'ms-dos)
"/_emacs"
"/.emacs")))))
emacs-d-dir)
((file-exists-p xdg-dir)
xdg-dir)
(t emacs-d-dir))))
This requires an etc/NEWS update as well.
Paul> If the idea is to go back to defaulting to .emacs.d, that's a step in
Paul> the wrong direction. Instead, I suggest that when Emacs starts up in
a
Paul> fresh home directory that lacks both .config/emacs and .emacs.d, Emacs
Paul> creates .config/emacs and sets up a symlink .emacs.d ->
Paul> .config/emacs. This would avoid the specific problem that Elias ran
Paul> into, and is less likely to cause problems in environments where user
Paul> configurations live in '.config'.
Paul> Partly I suggest this because it's what I've already been doing by
Paul> hand: the symlink makes things more convenient for users who run a
Paul> mixture of Emacs versions, as I do.
I have no objection to symlinking, but Eli really wants to only use
XDG if .emacs.d is non-existent.
Robert
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, (continued)
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/10
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Paul Eggert, 2020/01/10
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/11
- RE: Default emacs init file location confusion, Drew Adams, 2020/01/11
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Stefan Monnier, 2020/01/11
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/11
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion,
Robert Pluim <=
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/13
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Colin Baxter, 2020/01/13
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/13
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Colin Baxter, 2020/01/13
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/13
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/13
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Colin Baxter, 2020/01/13
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/13
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Colin Baxter, 2020/01/13
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/13