From: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 49424@debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim@gmail.com
Subject: bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 22:51:43 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <79b0205e-b8c5-d11c-5b78-812c352d755@froglet.home.mavit.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tul5exg2.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Wed, 7 Jul 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> This sentence
> explains that the rest of the documentation doesn't mention the logic
> of finding the init file under its various names, instead using just
> one possible name. You changed that one name without changing the
> rest of the documentation -- what does that achieve?
It turns out that the rest of the documentation already refers to ~/.emacs, not ~/.emacs.d/init.el.
> Stepping back a notch, the original report was:
>
> The info page “49.4.4 How Emacs Finds Your Init File” says:
>
> > For brevity the rest of the Emacs documentation generally uses just
> > the current default location ‘~/.emacs.d/init.el’ for the init file.
>
> However, this seems to be inaccurate: if I start Emacs as a new user
> and make a customisation, that customisation is written to ~/.emacs.
>
> How can a simplifying convention in a manual be "inaccurate"? And
> what does that convention have to do with the order and logic of how
> Emacs actually looks for the init file?
I understand the sentence to be making two assertions:
1. Throughout the documentation, “~/.emacs.d/init.el” will be used as a shorthand for “the initialisation file”, whatever filename that happens to have.
2. The default location of the initialisation file is “~/.emacs.d/init.el”.
Neither is true.
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Peter Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-07 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-05 22:56 bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file Peter Oliver
2021-07-06 15:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-07 9:17 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-07 11:28 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2021-07-07 13:10 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-07 16:33 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2021-07-07 12:24 ` Phil Sainty
2021-07-07 13:08 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-07 14:11 ` Stephen Berman
2021-07-07 14:40 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-07 16:21 ` Stephen Berman
2021-07-08 1:06 ` Phil Sainty
2021-07-07 17:58 ` Peter Oliver
2021-07-08 1:17 ` Phil Sainty
2021-07-08 7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-08 8:30 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-08 9:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-07 18:12 ` Peter Oliver
2021-07-07 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-07 19:08 ` Peter Oliver
2021-07-07 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-07 21:51 ` Peter Oliver [this message]
2021-07-08 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-08 8:40 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-08 9:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-08 18:22 ` Peter Oliver
2021-07-08 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-24 8:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-24 13:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 14:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-24 14:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 14:47 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-24 14:56 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-24 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-24 21:52 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-24 14:25 ` Robert Pluim
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