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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master d68ed15: Implement and document XDG-style
	startup files under ~/.config.
Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 09:51:27 -0400
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>   - ~/.emacs -> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/emacsrc
>   - ~/.emacs.el -> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/emacs.el
>   - ~/.emacs.d/init.el -> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/init.el

The first two don't make sense: those who use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/
should just use init.el.  There's no need for some kind of backward
compatibility here.


        Stefan