From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Farough Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default emacs init file location confusion Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 14:15:32 -0500 Message-ID: <87sgkrcc2z.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83y2ukc55g.fsf@gnu.org> <85C8025D-ACFD-4DEB-B030-E46B3109323E@gnu.org> <83lfqjckjn.fsf@gnu.org> <83blrfci4q.fsf@gnu.org> <837e23chdm.fsf@gnu.org> <83zhezb0jw.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="107484"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 07 20:35:43 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 1ioudh-000P7O-OY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 20:35:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55422 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ioudf-0006qQ-Vz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 14:35:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39823) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ioud7-00061E-NI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 14:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ioud6-00082X-NL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 14:35:05 -0500 Original-Received: from blaine.gmane.org ([195.159.176.226]:48276) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ioud6-00081V-Gg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 14:35:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1ioud4-000AhS-8U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 20:35:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:LUYVXHX0oNo78mpnisztkFqQ964= 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:244096 Archived-At: On Tue, Jan 07 2020, Yuan Fu wrote: >> I expect that it would/will bite any old timer who moves to a new >> machine and happens to run `emacs` before installing his config >> (e.g. because he needs to edit a config file in order to fetch his >> Emacs config). > > That happened to me when I installed Emacs on a remote server some > time ago. I found out the problem when I vaguely remembered that XDG > discussion after trying to debug my config for quite while. > > Yuan This also happened to me when setting up a new laptop. It took quite a while for me to figure out. -g