From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Baxter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default emacs init file location confusion Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:27:26 +0000 Message-ID: <874kwz1in5.fsf@yandex.com> References: <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="262913"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) Cc: , Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert , 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 16:32:46 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 1ir1eR-000jW9-VK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:29:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51882 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ir1eQ-0005Id-Js for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:29:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58289) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ir1d0-0002jW-3M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:27:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ir1cy-0004t0-4L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:27:41 -0500 Original-Received: from forward104j.mail.yandex.net ([2a02:6b8:0:801:2::107]:58662) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ir1cu-0004kA-Vv; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:27:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mxback22o.mail.yandex.net (mxback22o.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1a2d::73]) by forward104j.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id DEDCC4A0AF1; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:27:29 +0300 (MSK) Original-Received: from iva1-bc1861525829.qloud-c.yandex.net (iva1-bc1861525829.qloud-c.yandex.net [2a02:6b8:c0c:a0e:0:640:bc18:6152]) by mxback22o.mail.yandex.net (mxback/Yandex) with ESMTP id 8StpPVOonP-RTqaCmf4; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:27:29 +0300 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.com; s=mail; t=1578929249; bh=6Di8JIzukFdTEb2+6KbA2Kw578sPVrS4eghU0lDtNEI=; h=In-Reply-To:Subject:To:From:Cc:Cc:Date:References:Message-ID; b=U/PfvTikyFjpFCCbdEzbMjCOKfJwNecJbyTFwsaYX79BgRZt0HbceCT3MuRDsUhy0 ADHpL4LCbFNPWb93DtmMo/7qVSPmBi9D0wh7rPSxQqw7cb+vPsaSPHbbYVP2Asyfmj o5lJV8FiJ/rM2HQIzkgWyBQ4AsxpvrEEa0Ag2o74= Authentication-Results: mxback22o.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.com Original-Received: by iva1-bc1861525829.qloud-c.yandex.net (smtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id Eycgw1qr9M-RSWuf6sO; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:27:28 +0300 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) X-Face: -P+89ASh_wrs;AUGm`!l[}/o-lyK}5W.gq\fkJ{#d6Gu,hWrZNz::iMm5PJb} __A96]-LUrl)X=uF=V|\3-\9/sXvBs/H In-Reply-To: (Robert Pluim's message of "Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:36:08 +0100") Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAA8AAAAPCAIAAAC0tAIdAAAABmJLR0QA/wD/AP+gvaeTAAAA I0lEQVQokWNkYPjPQDRgIl7poFLN8p8ETw4id5OmmnFExCUAThQEG+ZYMH8AAAAASUVORK5CYII= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2a02:6b8:0:801:2::107 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:244222 Archived-At: >>>>> Robert Pluim writes: >>>>> 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. > +++ ** 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. For those emacs users who are not computer science graduates, could something be included in NEWS, say a URL link, to explain *briefly* this XDG convention? Best wishes,