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: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 05:32:59 +0200 Message-ID: <83y2ukc55g.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="38856"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Elias =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=A5rtenson?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 07 04:34:39 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.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 1iofdc-0009wJ-O9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 04:34:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41716 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iofdZ-0002WA-SR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:34:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41990) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iofbt-000055-1j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:32:49 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40539) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iofbs-0001bo-Te; Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:32:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3668 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iofbs-0001xH-CR; Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:32:48 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Elias =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=A5rtenson?= on Tue, 7 Jan 2020 10:51:49 +0800) 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:244047 Archived-At: > From: Elias MÃ¥rtenson > Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 10:51:49 +0800 > > I'm guessing that the $HOME/.config/emacs directory was created when I started Emacs before checking out > my .emacs.d from source control. > > Would it make sense to display a warning before creating this directory in the first place, explaining that doing > so will prevent $HOME/.emacs.d/init.el from being loaded? I don't think we create the ~/.config directory. We just check if its emacs subdirectory exists.