From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Visher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ~/.emacs vs ~/.emacs.d/init.el. 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Because then you can put the whole .emacs.d into version > > > > control separately from your home directory. > > > > > > > > However keep in mind that Emacs 27 adds support for XDG-style > > > > configuration directory, ~/.config/emacs/, which gives you the same > > > > abilities as ~/.emacs.d with an added benefit of less clutter in your > > > > home directory. > > > > > > I've tried the following based on your above notes, but it seems that > > > emacs doesn't pick up the initialization file located under > > > ~/.config/emacs/ automatically. > > > > > > $ mv .emacs.d/init.el ~/.config/emacs/ > > > > > > Any hints for this problem? > > > > Try removing or renaming ~/.emacs.d, the existence of which might be > > fooling emacs into *not* searching for ~/.config/emacs. For reference, > > see: > > > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Find-Init.html > > > > Currently, the ~/.emacs.d directory is used by emacs to store many of > the user data as shown below: > > $ ls ~/.emacs.d/ > auto-save-list cnfonts eaf elpa init.el network-security.data rime > url > > So, if I removed/deleted this folder, then where should I put the > emacs' user data? > The operation you really wanted to do in the beginning was probably `mv ~/.emacs.d ~/.config/emacs`. As the manual states the idea is that ~/.config/emacs completely replaces ~/.emacs.d.