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bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2021 21:36:01 +0300

> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 19:12:03 +0100 (BST)
> From: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 49424@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Yes, we should change that to say '~/.emacs'
> 
> Here’s a patch to do that.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Oliver
> 
> From e0a95ea7a048c505820829d8e10f0addf2cc6c4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Peter Oliver <git@mavit.org.uk>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 19:09:58 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Document init file with the highest precedence as ~/.emacs
> 
> * doc/emacs/custom.texi: Default location of init file is ~/.emacs
> (bug#49424).
> ---
>  doc/emacs/custom.texi | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/emacs/custom.texi b/doc/emacs/custom.texi
> index de5d825248..708349e833 100644
> --- a/doc/emacs/custom.texi
> +++ b/doc/emacs/custom.texi
> @@ -2713,7 +2713,7 @@ Find Init
>  name in the system's data base of users.
>  
>    For brevity the rest of the Emacs documentation generally uses just
> -the current default location @file{~/.emacs.d/init.el} for the
> +the current default location @file{~/.emacs} for the
>  init file.

Thanks, but this is still inaccurate.  Can we please change the
documentation so that it tells the whole story?





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