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bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file
From: |
Peter Oliver |
Subject: |
bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file |
Date: |
Wed, 7 Jul 2021 22:51:43 +0100 (BST) |
On Wed, 7 Jul 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
This sentence
explains that the rest of the documentation doesn't mention the logic
of finding the init file under its various names, instead using just
one possible name. You changed that one name without changing the
rest of the documentation -- what does that achieve?
It turns out that the rest of the documentation already refers to ~/.emacs, not
~/.emacs.d/init.el.
Stepping back a notch, the original report was:
The info page “49.4.4 How Emacs Finds Your Init File” says:
> For brevity the rest of the Emacs documentation generally uses just
> the current default location ‘~/.emacs.d/init.el’ for the init file.
However, this seems to be inaccurate: if I start Emacs as a new user
and make a customisation, that customisation is written to ~/.emacs.
How can a simplifying convention in a manual be "inaccurate"? And
what does that convention have to do with the order and logic of how
Emacs actually looks for the init file?
I understand the sentence to be making two assertions:
1. Throughout the documentation, “~/.emacs.d/init.el” will be used as a
shorthand for “the initialisation file”, whatever filename that happens to have.
2. The default location of the initialisation file is “~/.emacs.d/init.el”.
Neither is true.
--
Peter Oliver
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, (continued)
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Phil Sainty, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Peter Oliver, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Phil Sainty, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/08
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Robert Pluim, 2021/07/08
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/08
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Peter Oliver, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Peter Oliver, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file,
Peter Oliver <=
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/08
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Robert Pluim, 2021/07/08
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/08
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Peter Oliver, 2021/07/08
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/08