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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
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 07:10:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkv2qxwb8kH7Vg_A0MZScYpJDJ-AfS24yiE7Z0VViyhqw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735oqa6zd.fsf@gnus.org>

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> 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?

The default is ".emacs.el", if this text from (info "(emacs) Find Init")
is correct:

     Emacs looks for your init file using the filenames ‘~/.emacs.el’,
     ‘~/.emacs’, or ‘~/.emacs.d/init.el’ in that order; you can choose
     to use any one of these names. [...] Emacs can also look in an
     XDG-compatible location for ‘init.el’, the default is the directory
     ‘~/.config/emacs’.

> 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.

I guess because that's not the convention we actually use.  :-)
We say ".emacs" everywhere.  AFAICT, the only place we even mention
"~/.emacs.d/init.el" in the manual is this node (!).

That's why I proposed to change "current" to "historical", but the word
"traditional" is also good IMO.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-24 14:10 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
2021-10-24 14:10                     ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
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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