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From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: , Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default emacs init file location confusion
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:58:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zherz6us.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m25zhfv04g.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:37:03 +0100")

>>>>> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:27:26 +0000, Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> said:
>>>>> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:53:47 +0100, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> said:
    Robert> This requires an etc/NEWS update as well.

    >>> Comments definitely welcome. Any hint of possible ambiguity is
    >>> to be ruthlessly eliminated.

    >>> +++ ** Emacs can now use the XDG convention for init files.  For
    >>> example, it can look for init.el in "~/.config/emacs/init.el",
    >>> and similarly for other init files.

    Colin> For those emacs users who are not computer science graduates,
    Colin> could something be included in NEWS, say a URL link, to
    Colin> explain *briefly* this XDG convention?

    > I donʼt know about brief, but thereʼs
    > <https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html>

Yes, I've seen that url before. 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. However, I don't want to re-start the
~/.emacs.d versus ~/.config/emacs argument!


Best wishes,



  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-13 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
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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