bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file

[Stephen Berman]

On Wed, 07 Jul 2021 16:40:24 +0200 Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>>>> On Wed, 07 Jul 2021 16:11:32 +0200, Stephen Berman
> <stephen.berman@gmx.net> said:
>
>     Stephen> One thing I find useful about the current way is that I can use 
> ~/.emacs
>     Stephen> to carry out tests requiring (or facilitated by having) an init 
> file,
>     Stephen> without having to move or otherwise disable my actual init file
>     Stephen> ~/.emacs.d/init.el.  That benefit would be lost if the priority 
> was
>     Stephen> changed (or it would require making ~/.emacs the real init file 
> and
>     Stephen> using ~/.emacs.d/init.el for testing, which seems less 
> appealing).
>
> Instead of 'no init files' -> .emacs, weʼd have 'no init files' ->
> ~/.emacs.d/init.el
>
> That would not affect the existing search logic, which currently
> prefers .emacs to ~/.emacs.d/init.el if it finds .emacs

Ah, right.  Then it's fine by me :-)

Steve Berman