From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dani Moncayo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8221: 24.0.50; Allowed names for the init file. Windows/POSIX inconsistence. 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b=gH1/iuPENbKOoXnJiDyqdchH6KABmcDmc5pEZEEzTNOTW/bnaG1qJ3ySMmNYOPw/7L xfGMtLIxLewOLeesFI9AFVI4C3JtVRFP9E03aEq1gFUyeViVmR0mWiRvBjyMdioeSoxj JW/C+fvPWXVPW7J+a62GiarhfPzsazGOw5ov8= Original-Received: by 10.151.145.18 with SMTP id x18mr1694875ybn.133.1299793001040; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:36:41 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.90.78.4 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:36:41 -0800 (PST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:37:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:44879 Archived-At: Severity: wishlist Hello, I've been reading the documented behavior of Emacs with respect to the way it looks for the init file during startup. This is explained in the nodes "Init File" (for POSIX systems, I guess) and "Windows HOME" (for MS Windows platforms). According to the documentation (and the quick test I've done), we have this: - On Windows systems, Emacs tries to find the init file by cheking (in several paths) for the existence of a file named `.emacs'. - On POSIX systems, Emacs accepts the following alternatives as init file: `~/.emacs', `~/.emacs.el', or `~/.emacs.d/init.el' So, the question is, why this inconsistence? i.e., why not accept on Windows the same alternatives for the name of the init file as on POSIX systems? For example: Why not accept "\.emacs.d\.init.el" as a valid init file on Windows? ( being _any_ of the directories that Emacs currently checks for the `.emacs' file) -- Dani Moncayo