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Subject: bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file
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On Wed, 7 Jul 2021, Robert Pluim wrote:
> If nothing exists, Emacs will create ~/.emacs.d, and use ~/.emacs as
> the init file. We can change that to use ~/.emacs.d/init.el if we
> want, people who already have init files will not be affected.
Sounds good to me.
If we’re making a change, here, it may be worth going all the way: create $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs if it and ~/.emacs.d don’t exist, and hence use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/init.el when creating a new initialisation file.
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Peter Oliver
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