On Sun, 28 Jul 2019, 22:49 Eli Zaretskii, <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> > Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 11:46:31 -0700
> >
> > I'll give it a whirl. Proposed patch attached.
>
> >    When Emacs is started, it normally tries to load a Lisp program from
> >  an @dfn{initialization file}, or @dfn{init file} for short.  This
> > -file, if it exists, specifies how to initialize Emacs for you.  Emacs
> > -looks for your init file using the filenames
> > -@file{~/.config/emacs},. @file{~/.emacs}, @file{~/.config/emacs.el},
> > -@file{~/.emacs.el}, @file{~/.config/emacs.d/init.el} or
> > -@file{~/.emacs.d/init.el}; you can choose to use any one of these
> > -names (@pxref{Find Init}).  Here, @file{~/} stands for your home
> > +file, if it exists, specifies how to initialize Emacs for you.
> > +If the directory @file{@var{xdghome}/.config/emacs} exists, Emacs uses
> > +@file{@var{xdghome}/.config/emacs/init.el} as the init file.  Here,
> > +@var{xdghome} stands for the value of the environment variable
> > +@env{XDG_CONFIG_HOME}, or for @file{~/.config} if
> > +@env{XDG_CONFIG_HOME} is unset; @file{~/} stands for your home
> >  directory.
>

The above quote explains the meaning of the ~ symbol twice. Is that
necessary, or is it the result of an incorrect copy and paste?

Regards,
Elias

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