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* Default emacs init file location confusion
@ 2020-01-07  2:51 Elias Mårtenson
  2020-01-07  3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
  2020-01-07  3:43 ` VanL
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 90+ messages in thread
From: Elias Mårtenson @ 2020-01-07  2:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

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I recently had a problem which may cause some real issues with user. Please
allow me to explain the background:

I installed a new computer a couple of days ago (Fedora 31). I started out
with an empty home directory and I did not install Emacs from the
repositories. Instead, I installed all the build dependencies and built
Emacs master from Git.

After installing Emacs, and starting it once to check that it worked, I
checked out my $HOME/.emacs.d directory from source control and started
Emacs. At this point, I noted that my init file was not being loaded.

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.

If I had not known about the XDS stuff, I would have been extremely
confused about this behaviour. I don't think it can be expected that users
know about this, do this could cause a lot of confusion among people
following tutorials for example.

I'm guessing that the $HOME/.config/emacs directory was created when I
started Emacs before checking out my .emacs.d from source control.

Would it make sense to display a warning before creating this directory in
the first place, explaining that doing so will prevent
$HOME/.emacs.d/init.el from being loaded?

Regards,
Elias

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2020-01-07  2:51 Default emacs init file location confusion Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07  3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-07  3:40   ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07  4:40     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-07 14:43       ` Lawrence Liu
2020-01-07 15:26         ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-07 16:12           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-07 16:25             ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-07 17:04               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-07 17:11                 ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07 17:21                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-07 17:33                     ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07 17:37                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08  5:28                         ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-01-08  5:33                           ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-08  7:22                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 10:05                               ` Elias Mårtenson
     [not found]                               ` <m2eewajram.fsf@gmail.com>
2020-01-08 10:05                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 10:13                                   ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-08 10:22                                   ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 10:49                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 12:37                                       ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 13:51                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-08 15:58                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 16:28                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-08 16:32                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 16:41                                                 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-01-08 16:49                                                   ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 17:01                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 17:25                                                       ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 17:35                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 17:44                                                           ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 17:56                                                             ` Yuan Fu
2020-01-08 18:03                                                               ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-09  2:27                                                                 ` Yuan Fu
2020-01-08 18:07                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 18:12                                                               ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 18:19                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08 19:45                                                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-08 20:03                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-10 16:57                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-11  1:46                                                       ` Paul Eggert
2020-01-11  7:58                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-11 15:43                                                         ` Drew Adams
2020-01-11 16:16                                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-11 18:08                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-13  7:53                                                         ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 14:36                                                           ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 15:27                                                             ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-13 15:37                                                               ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 15:58                                                                 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-13 16:05                                                                   ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 16:42                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-13 16:59                                                                     ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-13 17:06                                                                       ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 17:21                                                                         ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-13 16:15                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-13 16:39                                                               ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-14 14:00                                                                 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-14 16:05                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-15 13:03                                                                     ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-15 17:32                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-16  7:35                                                                         ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-16 15:02                                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-16 15:08                                                                             ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 16:52                                                             ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-13 16:17                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-13 16:29                                                             ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-08 23:26                                           ` chad
2020-01-08 23:32                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-09  3:34                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-09  1:26                                             ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-09  5:07                                               ` 황병희
2020-01-08 11:03                                   ` Mario Lang
2020-01-08 15:56                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-08  8:04                             ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-07 17:57                     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-07 18:08                       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-07 18:09                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-07 18:41                         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-07 18:57                           ` Yuan Fu
2020-01-07 19:15                             ` Greg Farough
2020-01-07 20:11                               ` Andrea Corallo
2020-01-07 18:53                         ` Yuan Fu
2020-01-07 17:12                 ` Yuan Fu
2020-01-07 17:26                   ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07  3:46   ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-01-07  3:50     ` Elias Mårtenson
2020-01-07  3:43 ` VanL
2020-01-07  3:51   ` Elias Mårtenson

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