From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ~/.emacs vs ~/.emacs.d/init.el.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:50:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGP6PO+3GiNu_c3VTZideOZ-hcrBsuNeyUw5n6U98E_9Pxkwyw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8V4spdQOdSB1+wbFsh1mbt9WORdzR4vG8VFriQh5oqR=w@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 6:09 PM Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 at 16:00, Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > As far as the initialization file is concerned, which is more
> > preferable,~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.d/init.el?
>
> If you are choosing between these two, ~/.emacs.d/init.el is
> preferable. Because then you can put the whole .emacs.d into version
> control separately from your home directory.
>
> However keep in mind that Emacs 27 adds support for XDG-style
> configuration directory, ~/.config/emacs/, which gives you the same
> abilities as ~/.emacs.d with an added benefit of less clutter in your
> home directory.
I've tried the following based on your above notes, but it seems that
emacs doesn't pick up the initialization file located under
~/.config/emacs/ automatically.
$ mv .emacs.d/init.el ~/.config/emacs/
Any hints for this problem?
Regards,
--
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Polytechnic Vocational and Technical University
NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-13 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-13 9:00 ~/.emacs vs ~/.emacs.d/init.el Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-13 9:06 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-13 10:09 ` Yuri Khan
2020-12-13 13:50 ` Hongyi Zhao [this message]
2020-12-13 13:56 ` Tim Visher
2020-12-13 13:58 ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2020-12-13 14:38 ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-13 14:44 ` Tim Visher
2020-12-13 14:52 ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2020-12-13 15:04 ` Tim Visher
2020-12-13 15:12 ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-13 18:58 ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2020-12-13 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-13 14:06 ` Perry Smith
2020-12-13 14:31 ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-13 19:12 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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