From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: smartlitchi@gmail.com, lokedhs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default emacs init file location confusion
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 19:04:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83blrfci4q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2sgkrjksu.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:25:21 +0100)
> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: smartlitchi@gmail.com, lokedhs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:25:21 +0100
>
> Eli> (setq user-emacs-directory
> Eli> (startup--xdg-or-homedot startup--xdg-config-home-emacs nil))
>
> Eli> and startup--xdg-or-homedot is supposed not to look in ~/.config
> Eli> unless ~/.config/emacs exists and is a directory. Or what am I
> Eli> missing?
>
> If neither ~/.config/emacs nor ~/.emacs.d exist,
> startup--xdg-or-homedot returns ~/.config/emacs
But that doesn't seem to be the situation described by Elias in his
original report. He said:
> After installing Emacs, and starting it once to check that it
> worked, I checked out my $HOME/.emacs.d directory from source
> control and started Emacs. At this point, I noted that my init file
> was not being loaded.
If this means that ~/.emacs.d/ didn't exist when Emacs was first
started, then I think it's OK for Emacs to default to ~/.config/emacs,
because neither of the two possible candidates exist.
So now I don't think I understand the confusion.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-07 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-07 2:51 Default emacs init file location confusion Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-07 3:40 ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07 4:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-07 14:43 ` Lawrence Liu
2020-01-07 15:26 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-07 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-07 16:25 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-07 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-01-07 17:11 ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-07 17:33 ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 5:28 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-01-08 5:33 ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-08 7:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 10:05 ` Elias Mårtenson
[not found] ` <m2eewajram.fsf@gmail.com>
2020-01-08 10:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 10:13 ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-08 10:22 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 10:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 12:37 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 13:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-08 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 16:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-08 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 16:41 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-01-08 16:49 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 17:25 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 17:44 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 17:56 ` Yuan Fu
2020-01-08 18:03 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-09 2:27 ` Yuan Fu
2020-01-08 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 18:12 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 19:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-08 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-10 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-11 1:46 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-11 7:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-11 15:43 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-11 16:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-11 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-13 7:53 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 14:36 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 15:27 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-13 15:37 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 15:58 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-13 16:05 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-13 16:59 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-13 17:06 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 17:21 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-13 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-13 16:39 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-14 14:00 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-14 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-15 13:03 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-15 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-16 7:35 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-16 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-16 15:08 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 16:52 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-13 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-13 16:29 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 23:26 ` chad
2020-01-08 23:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-09 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-09 1:26 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-09 5:07 ` 황병희
2020-01-08 11:03 ` Mario Lang
2020-01-08 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 8:04 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-07 17:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-07 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-07 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-07 18:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-07 18:57 ` Yuan Fu
2020-01-07 19:15 ` Greg Farough
2020-01-07 20:11 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-01-07 18:53 ` Yuan Fu
2020-01-07 17:12 ` Yuan Fu
2020-01-07 17:26 ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07 3:46 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-01-07 3:50 ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07 3:43 ` VanL
2020-01-07 3:51 ` Elias Mårtenson
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