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: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 20:08:41 +0200 Message-ID: <83pnfp7tna.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="75612"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 11 19:10:28 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 1iqLCF-0008LJ-3r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2020 19:09:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59838 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iqLCD-00047j-IF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2020 13:09:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37268) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iqLBj-0003hF-1D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2020 13:08:43 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52374) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iqLBi-0003Kw-7r; Sat, 11 Jan 2020 13:08:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2488 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iqLBh-0002uX-JC; Sat, 11 Jan 2020 13:08:41 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 11 Jan 2020 11:16:19 -0500) 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:244204 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Robert Pluim , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 11:16:19 -0500 > > > If the idea is to go back to defaulting to .emacs.d, that's a step in the > > wrong direction. > > It might be "stepping away from XDG" compared to what we currently have > in Emacs-27, but it's still "stepping toward XDG" compared to Emacs-26, > so it's still in the right direction, methinks. In my POV, we are simply making the XDG support slightly more conservative and cautious. We certainly don't disable it or back it out.