From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Baxter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default emacs init file location confusion Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 17:21:57 +0000 Message-ID: <87o8v7z2yy.fsf@yandex.com> References: <539DBEA2-E758-4CB0-B886-F908CF0525B6@gnu.org> <83pnfuaqj3.fsf@gnu.org> <83imllc3iq.fsf@gnu.org> <87eew9q4rt.fsf@windriver.com> <83tv538d0q.fsf@gnu.org> <7f532a3b-a812-3088-936c-e15a35b58654@cs.ucla.edu> <874kwz1in5.fsf@yandex.com> <87zherz6us.fsf@yandex.com> <83tv4z5mv2.fsf@gnu.org> <87sgkjz3zl.fsf@yandex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="131839"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) Cc: , Eli Zaretskii , eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 13 18:23:56 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.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 1ir3QQ-000KiM-TB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:22:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53526 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ir3QP-00056Q-Mb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:22:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37138) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ir3Pk-0004Ca-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:22:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ir3Pi-0006ru-5K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:22:07 -0500 Original-Received: from forward101j.mail.yandex.net ([5.45.198.241]:45368) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ir3Pf-0006lu-6f; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:22:03 -0500 Original-Received: from forward101q.mail.yandex.net (forward101q.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:c0e:4b:0:640:4012:bb98]) by forward101j.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id CDF471BE0696; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 20:22:00 +0300 (MSK) Original-Received: from mxback3q.mail.yandex.net (mxback3q.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:c0e:39:0:640:4545:437c]) by forward101q.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id C77A8CF40009; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 20:22:00 +0300 (MSK) Original-Received: from vla5-445dc1c4c112.qloud-c.yandex.net (vla5-445dc1c4c112.qloud-c.yandex.net [2a02:6b8:c18:3609:0:640:445d:c1c4]) by mxback3q.mail.yandex.net (mxback/Yandex) with ESMTP id MureQ8j0Jv-M0kC7CEA; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 20:22:00 +0300 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.com; s=mail; t=1578936120; bh=+0Q9Gq1gsdrGUPAFckIl38ppM5Mv6i3Y9eeKqhKuoqE=; h=In-Reply-To:Subject:To:From:Cc:Cc:Date:References:Message-ID; b=A01iEDIxSwl0lhpcjFzv6n6+y2f0LRIYx/KsV7NK5sxurItV7ZNyuYrEjc7p10BZk QiqsevosSCaYG9Z1MZpi94gCpvs3p+TQUh7Nu7HBgF8w4zbE7SHqYdK6pNBNhsj1+Q liqTn3eO7fPuOZHYX9hrbbILsnoL8lPJkXH46XX0= Authentication-Results: mxback3q.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.com Original-Received: by vla5-445dc1c4c112.qloud-c.yandex.net (smtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id Fv1rfyK1rB-LwViJjw9; Mon, 13 Jan 2020 20:21:59 +0300 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) X-Face: -P+89ASh_wrs;AUGm`!l[}/o-lyK}5W.gq\fkJ{#d6Gu,hWrZNz::iMm5PJb} __A96]-LUrl)X=uF=V|\3-\9/sXvBs/H In-Reply-To: (Robert Pluim's message of "Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:06:01 +0100") Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAA8AAAAPCAIAAAC0tAIdAAAABmJLR0QA/wD/AP+gvaeTAAAA I0lEQVQokWNkYPjPQDRgIl7poFLN8p8ETw4id5OmmnFExCUAThQEG+ZYMH8AAAAASUVORK5CYII= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 5.45.198.241 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:244235 Archived-At: >>>>> Robert Pluim writes: >>>>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:59:58 +0000, Colin Baxter = said: >>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes: >>>> From: Colin Baxter Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 >>>> 15:58:03 +0000 Cc: , Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert >>>> , emacs-devel@gnu.org >>>>=20 >>>> I was thinking more along the lines of few words on why it's >>>> necessary now for emacs to adopt the convention - it is after >>>> all only a convention. >>> The reason is "by popular demand". If this is what you wanted >>> us to say that in NEWS, I'm okay with saying it. Colin> I thought it had something to do with *.desktop files. I Colin> don't use them so I don't know. > *.desktop files are for telling your desktop environment how you > want certain applications launched (I think. I use the cli to > launch applications). I=CA=BCll see how I can phrase 'by popular > demand' and 'for config files'. Thank you. Best wishes.