From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixing package-initialize, adding early init file Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 11:25:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83po9vos4z.fsf@gnu.org> <87shelv2m6.fsf@udel.edu> <83vajgh4xe.fsf@gnu.org> <838tc12h42.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1518711923 11649 195.159.176.226 (15 Feb 2018 16:25:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:25:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 15 17:25:19 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1emMLB-0001Lt-Gy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:24:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36537 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1emMND-0007JD-J5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 11:27:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51075) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1emMMn-00071X-DO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 11:26:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1emMMj-0003Vj-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 11:26:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=59469 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1emMMj-0003Ul-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 11:26:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1emMKO-0006vs-5r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:24:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:9ss8zOjingeiL3w1z7cAG7bdCIw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222765 Archived-At: >>> Btw, is it only looked up in .emacs.d, or also in the directory where >>> .emacs is searched (which could be just the home directory)? >> No, since .emacs is deprecated in favor of ~/.emacs.d/init.el. > Huh? Deprecation does not mean desupport. > Emacs still supports ~/.emacs, AFAIK. He just means that he didn't find it necessary to provide a ~/. alternative to the ~/.emacs,.d/early-init.el file. FWIW I completely agree that it doesn't seem to be worthwhile to add support for an alternate ~/. name: it would only make sense to do that in order to provide backward compatibility with a preexisting such ~/., but in this case there's no such preexisting file. Stefan