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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:244224 Archived-At: >>>>> Robert Pluim writes: >>>>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:27:26 +0000, Colin Baxter = said: >>>>> Robert Pluim writes: >>>>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:53:47 +0100, Robert Pluim s= aid: 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 don=CA=BCt know about brief, but there=CA=BCs > 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,