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Re: Default emacs init file location confusion
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Default emacs init file location confusion |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:45:31 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> If the user created it, sure. But that is not guaranteed, and if it
> wasn't the user, as we saw, the preference causes confusion and makes
> Emacs behave backward-incompatibly.
>
>> Anyway, I guess I canʼt convince you. We'll just have to be very clear
>> in the NEWS entry.
>
> Yes. But backward-compatible behavior makes the NEWS entry much less
> important.
I'm not sure human language is clear enough. So, IIUC, you're suggesting
(defvar user-emacs-directory
(cond
((file-directory-p "~/.emacs.d") "~/.emacs.d/")
((file-directory-p "~/.config/emacs") "~/.config/emacs")
(t "~/.emacs.d/")))
Right? If so, you have my vote.
Stefan
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, (continued)
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Yuan Fu, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Yuan Fu, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/08
- 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, 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