From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Location of .emacs file under `su` and `su -`?]
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:38:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871wr7jtkh.fsf@furball.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1GFk0q-0005iC-4E@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:06:44 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> What should we do? Would it suffice to update the Emacs manual to say
> that the init file is looked for in the home directory of $USER
> instead of $HOME?
>
> If you think the manual needs clarification, you're probably right.
> However, isn't the node Find Init clear enough?
>
> Perhaps the problem is that the node Init File makes a blanket statement
> about using HOME, which in fact is true only in the usual case.
> So that part could use rewriting.
>
> Would you like to try it?
I removed the blanket statement, and added an xref to Find Init.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-23 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-22 12:12 [Fwd: Location of .emacs file under `su` and `su -`?] Lennart Borgman
2006-08-22 15:18 ` Chong Yidong
2006-08-22 15:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-08-22 18:17 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-22 18:44 ` Chong Yidong
2006-08-23 4:06 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-23 16:38 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
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