From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default emacs init file location confusion Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:15:54 +0200 Message-ID: <834kwz72o5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <837e23chdm.fsf@gnu.org> <834kx7cgmh.fsf@gnu.org> <87tv56bjop.fsf@gmail.com> <539DBEA2-E758-4CB0-B886-F908CF0525B6@gnu.org> <83pnfuaqj3.fsf@gnu.org> <83imllc3iq.fsf@gnu.org> <87eew9q4rt.fsf@windriver.com> <83tv538d0q.fsf@gnu.org> <7f532a3b-a812-3088-936c-e15a35b58654@cs.ucla.edu> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="264476"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 13 17:21:15 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1ir2Ou-000Vn9-O1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 17:17:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52439 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ir2Ot-0005Ox-A4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:17:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46728) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ir2Nj-0003tj-5J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:16:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54342) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ir2Ni-0005lr-KZ; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:15:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3383 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ir2NW-0002GS-FV; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:15:54 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Robert Pluim on Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:36:08 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:244227 Archived-At: > From: Robert Pluim > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:36:08 +0100 > > >>>>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:53:47 +0100, Robert Pluim said: > > Robert> This requires an etc/NEWS update as well. > > Comments definitely welcome. Any hint of possible ambiguity is to be > ruthlessly eliminated. This is fine with me, with a single comment: > +++ > ** Emacs can now use the XDG convention for init files. > For example, it can look for init.el in "~/.config/emacs/init.el", and > similarly for other init files. I would remove the last sentence, as "for example" should IMO be after the more general description. > The 'XDG_CONFIG_HOME' environment variable (which defaults to "~/.config") > specifies the parent directory of these and other configuration files. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ And change here to say "directory of init.el and other configuration files". Btw, the "+++" before the NEWS entry means we have this documented in the manuals, but I wonder whether the current text there is in sync with the code change we are about to install. Thanks.