From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Corallo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default emacs init file location confusion Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 20:11:23 +0000 Message-ID: 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> <87sgkrcc2z.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="245679"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Greg Farough Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 07 21:12:25 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 1iovD9-000zj6-G0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 21:12:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55670 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iovD7-0001vd-MX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:12:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34979) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iovCN-00014Q-7f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:11:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iovCM-00039q-0o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:11:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.20]:58522) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iovCK-000336-I7; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:11:28 -0500 Original-Received: from sdf.org (ma.sdf.org [205.166.94.33]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 007KBOuH022574 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Tue, 7 Jan 2020 20:11:24 GMT Original-Received: (from akrl@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 007KBNVq014448; Tue, 7 Jan 2020 20:11:23 GMT In-Reply-To: <87sgkrcc2z.fsf@gnu.org> (Greg Farough's message of "Tue, 07 Jan 2020 14:15:32 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 205.166.94.20 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:244100 Archived-At: Greg Farough writes: > 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. > Same here. -- akrl@sdf.org