Re: Default emacs init file location confusion

[Paul Eggert]

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.

Which version is "this"? It's kind of a long thread....

If the idea is to go back to defaulting to .emacs.d, that's a step in 
the wrong direction. Instead, I suggest that when Emacs starts up in a 
fresh home directory that lacks both .config/emacs and .emacs.d, Emacs 
creates .config/emacs and sets up a symlink .emacs.d -> .config/emacs. 
This would avoid the specific problem that Elias ran into, and is less 
likely to cause problems in environments where user configurations live 
in '.config'.

Partly I suggest this because it's what I've already been doing by hand: 
the symlink makes things more convenient for users who run a mixture of 
Emacs versions, as I do.