From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk>,
49424@debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim@gmail.com
Subject: bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 15:27:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735oqa6zd.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=GEPYh8vQYQu_PTWGVdLoBx1m5Tfpm4z0C0e-kSh4m0w@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Sun, 24 Oct 2021 01:12:49 -0700")
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> This is the text under discussion:
>
> For brevity the rest of the Emacs documentation generally uses just
> the current default location ‘~/.emacs.d/init.el’ for the init file.
>
> The sentence says: "the current default location ‘~/.emacs.d/init.el’".
> I can't interpret this in any other way than that this is the default
> location. This is, as we know, incorrect.
Well, it's the default default location, isn't it?
But saying "current" here is very odd -- it's probably meant as opposed
to "historical", but why should the person reading this text care? Why
not just say
For brevity the rest of the Emacs documentation generally uses
‘~/.emacs.d/init.el’ for the init file.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-24 13:27 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
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 [this message]
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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