From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: VanL Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default emacs init file location confusion Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 14:43:04 +1100 Organization: BMF Prizefighter 'President' Trump 2020 Keep America Great =?utf-8?B?yZnJmTBA?= Ultimat Fighting Cybr Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="91176"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (berkeley-unix) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 07 04:48:02 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.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 1iofqZ-000NXu-P9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 04:47:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41802 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iofqW-0003FA-CF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:47:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46487) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iofmz-0007VC-2Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:44:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iofmx-0003Ft-T3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:44:16 -0500 Original-Received: from blaine.gmane.org ([195.159.176.226]:47294) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iofmx-0003E4-MS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:44:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iofmt-000JPs-OZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 04:44:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y/HmhsuMWxvOXZXrMRbGeV4hatY= 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: 2.1.23 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:244050 Archived-At: Elias Mårtenson writes: > After checking all the obvious things, I remembered seeing something about supporting the > XDG standards, and because of this I found a directory $HOME/.config/emacs. This directoriy > contained a single file whose name I cannot remember. As far as I can rceall, this file was > empty. I deleted this directory and restarted Emacs. At this point my init file was loaded > correctly. The confusion is gone after readin the NEWS outline file. -- VL