From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
To: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
49424@debbugs.gnu.org, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2021 13:17:22 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f9be1672d3a3d7c092febfb073db3ec0@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c2409d3b-7253-6d1a-912-a68331ca4932@froglet.home.mavit.org.uk>
On 2021-07-08 05:58, Peter Oliver wrote:
> If we’re making a change, here, it may be worth going all the way:
> create $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs if it and ~/.emacs.d don’t exist, and
> hence use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/init.el when creating a new
> initialisation file.
I don't agree with doing that.
The current XDG_CONFIG_HOME behaviour is opt-in, and I think it should
stay that way, partly so that the default behaviour is consistent across
systems, but also because I think the suggested behaviour would cause
widespread confusion from users who run Emacs before creating their
~/.emacs.d directory, and then can't figure out why their new config
isn't working. (IIRC that is exactly what happened with the original
XDG_CONFIG_HOME support code before it was adjusted to ensure that it
was opt-in behaviour, despite the fact that you needed to be running
a pre-release build of Emacs to be affected and therefore likely to
have a better understanding of things than the average newcomer.)
-Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-08 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-05 22:56 bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file Peter Oliver
2021-07-06 15:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-07 9:17 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-07 11:28 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2021-07-07 13:10 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-07 16:33 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2021-07-07 12:24 ` Phil Sainty
2021-07-07 13:08 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-07 14:11 ` Stephen Berman
2021-07-07 14:40 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-07 16:21 ` Stephen Berman
2021-07-08 1:06 ` Phil Sainty
2021-07-07 17:58 ` Peter Oliver
2021-07-08 1:17 ` Phil Sainty [this message]
2021-07-08 7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-08 8:30 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-08 9:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-07 18:12 ` Peter Oliver
2021-07-07 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-07 19:08 ` Peter Oliver
2021-07-07 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-07 21:51 ` Peter Oliver
2021-07-08 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-08 8:40 ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-08 9:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-08 18:22 ` Peter Oliver
2021-07-08 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-24 8:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-24 13:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 14:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-24 14:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-24 14:47 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-24 14:56 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-24 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-24 21:52 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-24 14:25 ` Robert Pluim
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