From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default emacs init file location confusion Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:28:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <85C8025D-ACFD-4DEB-B030-E46B3109323E@gnu.org> <83lfqjckjn.fsf@gnu.org> <83blrfci4q.fsf@gnu.org> <837e23chdm.fsf@gnu.org> <834kx7cgmh.fsf@gnu.org> <87tv56bjop.fsf@gmail.com> <539DBEA2-E758-4CB0-B886-F908CF0525B6@gnu.org> <83pnfuaqj3.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="188822"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: matthewzmd@gmail.com, rpluim@gmail.com, lokedhs@gmail.com, smartlitchi@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 08 17:29:21 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 1ipECf-000aXv-Hi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 17:29:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46416 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ipECe-0008K4-0n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:29:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51287) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ipEBo-0007My-Db for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:28:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ipEBn-0005rz-A9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:28:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:24227) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ipEBl-0005pG-6m; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:28:09 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 863D044DBB2; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 11:28:07 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 0B07644DBB0; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 11:28:06 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1578500886; bh=H8E0onzhPNFnRiCNqw7WosnbZTcBeIFugz2ry8bB5MA=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=gFP1ef0UazWw2EB3h19LPKyt4bVzUe2pdWkozstkWLcj+BFQl6/2mTfY5OShGKeoO DTicO/kXi+qsXGgb5rjQuvN73ieyrg13h4RksJxgTUtMBmgjmo2/GOR6itzYvkI2SN j1e6FT0hradrlyjmXU5yypbI/BdcTCfPQr6E8nQz1XK3xWOW4KfqAhKRjn6LNL8/MV blZo8roD345HlXO4R70puTBWoIuMSd0UWgMPgoQ3MOLUFEaJzzAgog0eS0ARf//Hew Uzd9Vwl8SAzCKPp3gSIxpPF0lgmrrTOizJmDDfHl3rK240q4guxVQtsa9UgEGjFglW MBwmm87x+b6kw== Original-Received: from lechazo (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D49B61202CD; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 11:28:05 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83pnfuaqj3.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 08 Jan 2020 17:58:40 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 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:244127 Archived-At: >> Still, a warning when both are present would be welcome. > Not here, it isn't. We had something similar with MS-Windows users > when we moved from the C:/.emacs default, and it was a source of > endless annoyances. No more, please. Do you remember details of the annoyance? Why did people have two .emacs files (and kept them both)? Maybe these problems wouldn't apply to the ~/.config/emacs -vs- ~/.emacs.d case, but if they do, it would be good to keep a written trace of it somewhere to avoid falling back into that trap even after you forgot about it ;-) Stefan