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.
next prev parent 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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