From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: psainty@orcon.net.nz, larsi@gnus.org, p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk,
49424@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2021 12:21:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837di1duv4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fswpb41z.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Thu, 08 Jul 2021 10:30:48 +0200)
> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>, p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk,
> larsi@gnus.org, 49424@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2021 10:30:48 +0200
>
> >> The current XDG_CONFIG_HOME behaviour is opt-in, and I think it should
> >> stay that way, partly so that the default behaviour is consistent across
> >> systems, but also because I think the suggested behaviour would cause
> >> widespread confusion from users who run Emacs before creating their
> >> ~/.emacs.d directory, and then can't figure out why their new config
> >> isn't working. (IIRC that is exactly what happened with the original
> >> XDG_CONFIG_HOME support code before it was adjusted to ensure that it
> >> was opt-in behaviour, despite the fact that you needed to be running
> >> a pre-release build of Emacs to be affected and therefore likely to
> >> have a better understanding of things than the average newcomer.)
>
> Eli> I tend to agree with Phil here. Let's leave this part of Emacs alone
> Eli> for a release or two, and see how the user community reacts to the
> Eli> changes we did just recently. Making changes right now in this
> Eli> sensitive area could bring more trouble, and what practical problems
> Eli> are we going to solve?
>
> By 'this part' do you mean the XDG_CONFIG_HOME related changes, or
> also the suggested change to prefer ~/.emacs.d/init.el when no config
> files exist?
I meant both. I think we should leave this area alone for a while and
let the dust settle on the recent changes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-08 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-05 22:56 bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file Peter Oliver
2021-07-06 15:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-07 9:17 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-07 11:28 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2021-07-07 13:10 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-07 16:33 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2021-07-07 12:24 ` Phil Sainty
2021-07-07 13:08 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-07 14:11 ` Stephen Berman
2021-07-07 14:40 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-07 16:21 ` Stephen Berman
2021-07-08 1:06 ` Phil Sainty
2021-07-07 17:58 ` Peter Oliver
2021-07-08 1:17 ` Phil Sainty
2021-07-08 7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-08 8:30 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-08 9:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-07-07 18:12 ` Peter Oliver
2021-07-07 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-07 19:08 ` Peter Oliver
2021-07-07 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-07 21:51 ` Peter Oliver
2021-07-08 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-08 8:40 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-08 9:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-08 18:22 ` Peter Oliver
2021-07-08 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-24 8:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-24 13:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 14:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-24 14:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 14:47 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-24 14:56 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-24 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-24 21:52 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-24 14:25 ` Robert Pluim
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