From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org,Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: "Mingde (Matthew) Zeng" <matthewzmd@gmail.com>,
smartlitchi@gmail.com, "Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Default emacs init file location confusion
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:49:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FB593B3B-47C9-4222-B933-2EC1F3643E57@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2a76yjlij.fsf@gmail.com>
On January 8, 2020 12:22:12 PM GMT+02:00, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:05:57 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> said:
> >> hence Iʼd prefer:
> >>
> >> Use the XDG directory if it exists, but donʼt create
> >> it. Otherwise, use ~/.emacs.d (and create it if necessary).
>
> Eli> This is IMO a much more invasive change, and therefore
> inappropriate
> Eli> for the release branch. The current code relies on
> Eli> user-emacs-directory to exist. Lifting this restriction should
> be a
> Eli> separate change, and we should do it on master.
>
> I didnʼt propose making user-emacs-directory not exist. I proposed
> creating only ~/.emacs.d (and then using it).
That would mean we sometimes prefer XDG and sometimes .emacs.d, something that IMO will be harder to explain and document, and easier to become confused about.
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Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-07 2:51 Default emacs init file location confusion Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-07 3:40 ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07 4:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-07 14:43 ` Lawrence Liu
2020-01-07 15:26 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-07 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-07 16:25 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-07 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-07 17:11 ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-07 17:33 ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 5:28 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-01-08 5:33 ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-08 7:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 10:05 ` Elias Mårtenson
[not found] ` <m2eewajram.fsf@gmail.com>
2020-01-08 10:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 10:13 ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-08 10:22 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 10:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-01-08 12:37 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 13:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-08 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 16:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-08 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 16:41 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-01-08 16:49 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 17:25 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 17:44 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 17:56 ` Yuan Fu
2020-01-08 18:03 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-09 2:27 ` Yuan Fu
2020-01-08 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 18:12 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 19:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-08 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-10 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-11 1:46 ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-11 7:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-11 15:43 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-11 16:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-11 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-13 7:53 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 14:36 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 15:27 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-13 15:37 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 15:58 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-13 16:05 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-13 16:59 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-13 17:06 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 17:21 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-13 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-13 16:39 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-14 14:00 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-14 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-15 13:03 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-15 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-16 7:35 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-16 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-16 15:08 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 16:52 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-13 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-13 16:29 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 23:26 ` chad
2020-01-08 23:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-09 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-09 1:26 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-09 5:07 ` 황병희
2020-01-08 11:03 ` Mario Lang
2020-01-08 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 8:04 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-07 17:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-07 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-07 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-07 18:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-07 18:57 ` Yuan Fu
2020-01-07 19:15 ` Greg Farough
2020-01-07 20:11 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-01-07 18:53 ` Yuan Fu
2020-01-07 17:12 ` Yuan Fu
2020-01-07 17:26 ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07 3:46 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-01-07 3:50 ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07 3:43 ` VanL
2020-01-07 3:51 ` Elias Mårtenson
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